Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, on Tuesday chaired a meeting at the Grand Serail devoted to discussing the present conditions of the Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport, attended by Minister of Public Works and Transportation, Ali Himieh, Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Khalil, MP Ghazi Youssef, the Chairman of the Council for Development and Reconstruction, Nabil El-Jisr, Middle East Airlines’ Board Chairman, Mohamed Al-Hout and the Director General of Civil Aviation Fadi Al-Hassan.
Premier Mikati also chaired another meeting devoted to discussing electricity sector affairs, attended by Deputy Prime Minister Saade Chami, Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Khalil, Minister of Energy and Water, Dr. Walid Fayyad, MP Nicolas Nahas, Regional Director of the Mashreq Department at the World Bank, Saroj Kumar Jha, and the Director General of Electricité du Liban (EDL) Kamal Hayek.
On emerging, Minister Fayyad said that the meeting touched on a number of electricity sector related dossiers.
On the other hand, Premier Mikati met with UK Defence Senior Advisor to the Middle East and North Africa (DSAME) Air Marshal Martin Sampson, in the presence of British Ambassador to Lebanon, Ian Collard, and Military Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Lee Richard Saunders.
Talks reportedly touched on the bilateral relations between the two countries.
Mikati also met with Beirut Governor, Judge Marwan Abboud, who said on emerging that they discussed the conditions of infrastructure in the city of Beirut.
Source: National News Agency