The Council of Ministers held its weekly meeting today at the Grand Serail.

After the meeting, Minister of Information, Melhem Riachi, read the following official information:

"The Council of Ministers held its weekly meeting at the Grand Serail, chaired by the President of the Council of Ministers Saad Hariri in the absence of Ministers Ghazi Zaiter, Yaqoub al-Sarraf and Youssef Fenianos.

At the beginning of the meeting, Prime Minister Hariri stressed the decision of the Council of Ministers to give orders to the army to take the necessary time to resolve Al-Qaa outskirts battle against terrorism, and asserted the importance of the dissociation policy for the confidence restoration government and not to involve Lebanon in the axes struggle."

He added: "After that the Council of Ministers discussed its agenda and approved most items, while the item related to the heritage building draft law was not approved and was transferred to a committee for study and there was also a lengthy discussion on the issue of Beirut Bourse."

Question: What about the discussion that took place regarding the visit of some ministers to Syria?

Riachi: The Council of Ministers didn't take any decision on this issue. There was a lengthy discussion that remains in the council, but the most important thing is that the Prime Minister was clear in stressing the importance of dissociating from any struggles or regional axes, and if the minister wants to visit Syria he does that by himself and not by a decision from the Council of Ministers that dissociated itself from regional axes since the government is a national unity government and any visit will not be by a decision from the council of ministers.

Question: Was the ministers' visit to Syria on the agenda?
Riachi: No the issue wasn't on the agenda.

Ministerial meeting
Later Prime Minister Hariri chaired a meeting for the ministerial committee charged with the implementation of the electoral law. The meeting was attended by ministers Talal Arslan, Nouhad Machnouk, Ali Hassan Khalil, Gebran Bassil, Mohammed Fneish, Pierre Abu Assi, and the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers Fouad Fleifel. - Press release

Source: NNA