Aoun Receives Credentials of Ambassadors

15 November 2016 English
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, second left, reviews an honor guard at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. Lebanon's parliament on Monday elected Michel Aoun, an 81-year-old former army commander and strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah, as the country's president, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the top post and a political crisis that brought state institutions perilously close to collapse.. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Arab and foreign ambassadors started presenting copies of their credentials to President Michel Aoun, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Aoun received the credentials of Ambassador of Jordan Nabil Masarweh, Ambassador of Greece Theodore Passas and Italian Ambassador Massimo Marotti, NNA added.

Later, the President received a copy of the credentials of French Ambassador Emmanuel Bonne, EU Ambassador Christina Lassen and the Ambassador of Chile Martha Chalhoub.

On October 31, Aoun was elected as Lebanon’s 13th president which ended around two and a half years of presidential and political vacuum.

He was elected with the majority of 83 MP votes out of 126.

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