Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday chaired at the Grand Serail a Cabinet meeting focused on the draft state budget. At the beginning of the session, Hariri said: “I will be heading next week to the Brussels conference on supporting the future of Syria, with […]

President Michel Aoun on Monday appointed former education minister Elias Bou Saab as international cooperation adviser, the Presidency said in a statement. Bou Saab, who represented Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement in Tammam Salam’s government and has good ties with Gulf officials, will be tasked with […]

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Jordan on Monday “unanimously” approved a clause about “solidarity with Lebanon” that is expected to be included in the draft closing statement of the upcoming Arab Summit. Al-Jadeed television said the clause was unanimously approved due to “Lebanese diplomatic efforts […]

A new difficulty has surfaced on the eve of the Arab summit after reports said that five former presidents and premiers of Lebanon have sent a letter to head of the Arab summit including negative positions of Hizbullah -which was interpreted as bypassing Lebanon’s position, […]

President Michel Aoun will head a delegation to Jordan on Tuesday to partake in the 28th Arab League summit which will be held in Amman, and to hold talks with several Arab leaders, media reports said on Monday. Prime Minister Saad Hariri will accompany Aoun […]

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday noted that the political parties are discussing the proportional representation portion of the electoral law, renewing his rejection of parliamentary vacuum, another extension of parliament’s term, and the controversial 1960 law. “The first task and the first […]

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday noted that “all politicians in Lebanon will not be able to make any initiative unless they rise above their private interests that are being fulfilled at the expense of public welfare and the state’s treasury.” “We urge the officials […]

Change and Reform bloc secretary MP Ibrahim Kanaan has stressed that the country is headed for “a new electoral law through which all components will be represented,” noting that the Free Patriotic Movement has practiced real “opposition” throughout its history. “The FPM was born from […]

After Israel’s announcement that it will submit a bill to the Israeli Knesset annexing a disputed maritime border area with Lebanon, Lebanese authorities have sent a letter to the United Nations and Security Council denouncing the move and warning of the repercussions, media reports said […]