Miqati Returns on Friday as Cabinet Scheduled to Discuss UNIFIL Blast, Administrative Issues

Premier Najib Miqati returns to Beirut from his family trip abroad on Friday night as the cabinet readies itself to hold a meeting next week to discuss the bombing that targeted a UNIFIL patrol in the south and a series of administrative issues.

The agenda of Tuesday’s cabinet meeting has 161 items linked to financial, real estate, electricity and water projects. The agenda also includes the transfer of teachers at the Lebanese University.

The only item that deals with appointments to state positions is the appointment of candidate Hassan Baidoun to the post of director-general of the investment authority at the energy ministry.

Energy Minister Jebran Bassil told As Safir daily that 10 agenda items deal with electricity and water projects in the country. “We have completed three studies on improvements of the electricity, water and oil sectors that will be consecutively referred to the cabinet.”

He said that he completed the 2011 budget of his ministry and referred it to the finance minister to include it in the general budget.