April 7, 2016 Letter from the Army to Customs
Lebanese Republic
Ministry of National Defense
Army Command
Equipment Department of the Army Staff
[No: 83734 /TG/Technical
Classification: 1/20879
To the Directorate General of Customs
Re: Taking a stance regarding the need for ammonium nitrate
Following its letter no: 47882/TG/Technical on November 19, 2019, and further to your letter no:22138/2015 on June 26, 2016, the Army Command hereby informs you that the Army do not need the Ammonium Nitrate (2755,5 tons) present in Hangar 12 at Beirut Port and whose nitrogen grade is 34.7%. You may contact the “Lebanese Company for Explosives, Majid al-Shammas”, to determine whether it could benefit from it, or re-export the material to the source country at the expense of the importers if the aforementioned company does not want material.
Yarzeh, April 7, 2017
Jean Kahwaji
Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces
On his behalf,
Major General Salman, Chief of Staff
Stamp:
Lebanese Republic
Ministry of National Defense
Army Command
To the right
Directorate General of Lebanese Customs.
April 8, 2016
Registration No: 2015/22138
[February 27, 2016]