CAIRO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Riad Salameh
announced that he has decided to leave his post as chief of the
central bank once his term ends in July.
"No one has asked me to continue [as central bank chief] but
even if they do, I think this is enough," he said in a televised
interview with Egypt's AlQahera News on Sunday.
Salameh also said Lebanon's current economic crisis was due
to ongoing political instability and that parallel exchange
rates in the country were the cause of inadequate foreign
currency reserves.
Salameh added that Lebanon's foreign exchange reserves
currently measured at $10 billion while gold reserves were
valued at $17 billion.
(Reporting by Hatem Maher and Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Adam
Makary; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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