Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 5/7/2001
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of May 7, 2001
- Lebanon is committed to UNIFIL
With the continued Israeli violations in South Lebanon, Lebanon continued its diplomatic moves which aim at implementing the recommendations submitted by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the UN Security Council in which he proposed to reduce the UN forces in South Lebanon UNIFIL with the fall of July next year. Lebanon, Politics, 5/11/2001 - Arab capital markets meeting opens in Beirut
The 7th congress of the Arab capital markets opened in Beirut Thursday with 650 Arab businessmen and foreign finance experts attending. Lebanon-Regional, Economics, 5/11/2001 - Al-Assad confers with two Lebanese officials Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 5/10/2001
- No official invitations for the Pope's visit to Syria
The Monte Carlo radio correspondent in Beirut said on Saturday that the visit of Pope John Paul II to Syria will not be attended by any Lebanese official delegations because the state of Lebanon did not receive the invitation to take part, as the government of Syria did not play any role in extending invitation, rather the local Syrian church authorities did so. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 5/7/2001 - Al-Hariri to visit Syria
The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa quoted well-informed sources in Beirut as saying that it is possible that the Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri will visit Syria to meet with President Bashar al-Assad after the end of Pope John Paul II's visit to Syria. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 5/7/2001