Lebanon’s new Information Minister Tareq Mitri on Friday said the committee delegated to draft a ministerial statement prioritized issuing a statement agreed upon by all above all else

Friday’s meeting, the first to join the committee with Prime Minister Fouad Sinora, was a “frank discussion of all the issues that the ministerial statement will cover, particularly national and political issues,” Mitri added.

Replying to a question, he pointed out that the metric "The issue of weapons of the resistance to discuss the file on the table of dialogue can only be discussed within the Drafting Committee and the Committee decides whether its members agree on the text submitted to the Cabinet in order embodied in the ministerial statement or any other option, but we have not yet reached the Agreement on that. "

“Like any ministerial statement, there is a general political introduction that covers major national issues and the choices that join us as a government that has a vision of rebuilding national unity,” Mitri said after the meeting.

 “There is another section that covers ministerial priorities over the next year in detail,” he continued. “In this second section, each minister places a draft of the priorities of his ministry.”

 -NOW Staff