Day: May 8, 2023

Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, on Monday received an invitation from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, to participate in the 32nd regular session of the Arab League Council's meeting at the summit level, which will be held in Jeddah - Saudi Arabia on May 19. Mikati welcomed at the Grand Serail the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Walid Bukhari, who handed him the invitation. During the meeting, the pair discussed the current situation in Lebanon and the region, as well as Lebanese-Saudi bilateral relations. The Prime Minister later received United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Lebanon, Imran Riza. The meeting took stock of the Syrian refugee file in Lebanon. For his part, Riza congratulated Lebanon for having a unified ...

NNA - Foreign Affairs and Emigrants House Committee, headed by MP Fadi Alameh, on Monday received the Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Sudan in Lebanon, Sarah Idris. Discussions reportedly touched on the security developments in Sudan and the situation of the Lebanese community in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities. The Foreign Affairs Committee expressed its full solidarity and that of the Lebanese people with the brotherly Sudan to get out of its ordeal and the need for its people to adopt the language of dialogue and convergence in order to restore its stability and move forward in the process of agreement. The committee also thanked the "Arab Republic of Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their assistance in evacuating the Lebanese community members from Sudan and their ret...

NNA - Caretaker Minister of Culture, Mohammad Wissam Mortada, received, in his office at the Sanayeh palace, Finland's Ambassador to Lebanon, Anne Meskanen, in the presence of Consul General Zafer Al-Chaoui. Discussions touched on general cultural affairs, in addition to exploring ways of cultural cooperation between the Ministry and the State of Finland. Ambassador Meskanen requested Minister Mortada's patronage and attendance of a Finnish musical event that will be held next June 14th at Al-Bustan Hotel, which he duly accepted. Source: National News Agency - Lebanon

NNA - 14 quakes with a magnitude ranging between 2 and 4.8 magnitudes on the Richter Scale have been recorded over the past 24 hours, the National Earthquake Center said. The center added that the stations of the National Seismic Network recorded a 2 magnitude tremor 15 km to the northwest of Homs central province, and seven other tremors in Liwa Iskenderun, of which the highest magnitude reached up to 4.8, in addition to registering 6 quakes in Turkey. -- SANA News Agency Source: National News Agency - Lebanon