BEIRUT: The Cabinet will hold two sessions this week, one Wednesday under Prime Minister Najib Mikati in the Grand Serail and the second Friday under President Michel Sleiman at Baabda Palace.
Wednesday’s session has 67 items on the agenda while ministers Friday will discuss pending draft laws from previous sessions and continue studying a draft law for the 2013 parliamentary elections forwarded by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel that calls for adopting proportional representation.
On the Cabinet agenda Wednesday are requests for advance payments from the treasury by the ministries of Transport and Public Works, Defense, Justice, Education and Tourism and a request by the Environment Ministry to accept a $1.64 million grant from the Greek government.
Ministers are expected to discuss a draft law allowing the Cabinet to ratify an agreement for military cooperation between Lebanon and Jordan, along with a request by Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to allow and finance a number of trips by a delegation from the ministry to Libya to follow up on investigations into the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr and his two companions, Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine.
The three went missing during an official visit to Tripoli on the invitation of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in August 1978. The fall of Gadhafi’s regime has boosted hopes of uncovering their fate. The first visit is to be made between Nov. 23 and Nov. 30.
Also on Wednesday’s agenda is a proposal by the Foreign Ministry to provide humanitarian aid to victims of Turkey’s earthquake and a request by the Tourism Ministry to establish a cafeteria near the Masnaa border-crossing along the Lebanese-Syrian border.
The Cabinet will not discuss the divisive item of funding for the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon this week.
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