Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman is due to travel to Vatican City later this week for talks with Pope Benedict XVI, a presidential palace source said Tuesday.
Beirut - Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman has set September 16 as the date for launching a national dialogue among the country's political rivals, a government source said Tuesday.
The talks will take place in the Baabda Presidential Palace and are aimed at generating a consensus between the country's major parliamentary factions - namely the Hezbollah-led opposition and the Western-backed ruling majority - on several controversial issues.
A major sticking point is the proposed disarmament of Hezbollah by the ruling majority.
Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman travelled to Qatar on Monday for talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani.
During his two-day visit to Doha, the Lebanese president is expected to thank Qatar for its "constant support" for Lebanon, according to Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh.
Suleiman's visit comes two days after Saudi King Abdullah and the Qatari emir discussed the situation in Lebanon and the latest developments in the region.
Damascus - Overshadowed by a bloody terror bombing in northern Lebanon, Syrian President Basher al-Assad and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman began Wednesday a two-day summit being dubbed by many commentators in the region as "historic."
It is the first top-level meeting between the two countries since the February 2005 car bomb assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri which triggered the pullout of Syrian forces from Lebanon that same year.
Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman left for Paris on Saturday where he was due to meet Syrian President Bashar Assad ahead of a Mediterranean summit.
Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will meet his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of the Union of the Mediterranean summit opening Sunday in Paris, local radio stations reported Wednesday.
"The talks will focus on returning brotherly relations between the two countries after statements from both presidents expressing the willingness to establish diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Syria," Voice of Lebanon radio reported.
Beirut - Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman has set September 16 as the date for launching a national dialogue among the country's political rivals, a government source said Tuesday.
Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman travelled to Qatar on Monday for talks with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani.
Damascus - Overshadowed by a bloody terror bombing in northern Lebanon, Syrian President Basher al-Assad and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman began Wednesday a two-day summit being dubbed by many commentators in the region as "historic."
Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will meet his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of the Union of the Mediterranean summit opening Sunday in Paris, local radio stations reported Wednesday.
