European - Lebanese agreement on reviving partnership negotiations

Naser El-Saedi, the Lebanese economy minister declared that "there is an agreement between Lebanon and the European Union on reviving the partnership negotiations between them in coming September." El-Saedi who lately paid a short visit to Brussel considered the partnership with the European Union a strategic matter and that Lebanon achieved a lot in the necessary reforms for this especially the vote draft resolution and the intellectual property protection as well as applying industry development program.