Suleiman to Head Last Two Cabinet Sessions before End of Term

Outgoing President Michel Suleiman will chair on Friday a cabinet session that will tackle a new package of appointments after positive signs loomed on filling the vacant administrative posts.

The session, which will be held at the Baabda Palace at 4:00 pm, will tackle 61 articles on its agenda, local newspapers reported on Thursday.

The session will be Suleiman's penultimate cabinet meeting before the end of his tenure on May 25.

On May 15, the cabinet made a series of appointments in a four-hour session.

The government is expected to discuss in its session on Friday the appointment of the members of the Military Council, the Inspector General and the Managing Director at the Ministry of Defense, the acting Director General of the Internal Security Forces and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the consumer markets.

Ministerial sources described the session in comments published in An Nahar daily as “important.”

The sources pointed out that the meeting will also tackle the landlines and cellular tariffs and international and Arab agreements.

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