GDP growth at five percent in 2010

Salameh:" 2010-GDP growth rate would be less than the rates achieved in 2009"

He said the growth rate would be less than 2009’s GDP Growth which reached 8.5 percent.

Salameh said he expects the debt-to-GDP ratio to fall to 146 to 147 percent in 2010 from the current ratio of 150 percent.

Salameh said that the public debt currently stands at $51 billion.