25 January 2007
¤The Paris III conference
PartiesGovernmentFranceUnited StatesSaudi Arabia
On 25 January 2007, at the height of the central Beirut sit-in and two days after the strike of 23 January, Chirac gathered the donor states, which pledged some 7.6 billion dollars to Siniora's government in exchange for a reform plan; the opposition read it as political support for the government.