By Kevin McCauley
Beirut-based Millennium Group Services, a real estate development and media combine, has hired Bridges International to enhance Lebanon’s ties with the U.S.
Millennium also seeks to foster support for Lebanon’s Future Movement political party of the country’s former billionaire prime minister Saad Hariri. Future Movement played a major role in the exit of Syrian troops from Lebanon in 2005.
Hariri’s coalition government collapsed in January shortly after he had an Oval Office photo- op with president Obama.
Bridges, which receives a $17M monthly retainer under the one-year pact, is to maintain contract with U.S. government official, reporters, academics and think tankers.
It is to give updates on political, economic, military and cultural developments in Lebanon.
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