Beirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora stressed at a conference in Beirut Thursday that security and stability are the key to healthy financial growth in the country.
The Friends of Lebanon for Investment and Finance conference, which was attended by 500 participants from 15 Arab and international institutions, was set to address the global financial crisis and its local repercussions and to explore investment opportunities in Lebanon.
Beirut - Visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband started official talks with Lebanese leaders Wednesday, saying he hoped that stability would prevail in Lebanon until the upcoming parliamentary election due in May 2009.
"The entire world is looking at the upcoming parliamentary elections where politics, not violence, should determine Lebanon's future relations," Miliband said after meeting Lebanese President Michel Suleiman.
- A new Lebanese magazine that Focuses on body art, science and literature and aims to tackle subjects such as eroticism and fetishism, is due to hit the stands in the Arab world next month.
Joumana Haddad, editor-in-chief of Jasad (the Arabic word for body), said the publication aims to break taboos and will provide its writers, researchers and artists with the freedom they deserve.
Beirut - British Foreign Minister David Miliband is to visit Lebanon for talks with President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday.
The talks with the British official is to take place on Tuesday.
Miliband arrived in the Middle East on Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a bid to enhance the peace process as Israel prepares for early elections.
Beirut - Syria has rejected four ambassadorial candidates put forward to represent Lebanon in Syria, Lebanon's Naharnet news website reported Thursday.
"The process of exchanging ambassadors between the two countries has come to a standstill," the website quoted an informed source as saying.
Beirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora stressed at a conference in Beirut Thursday that security and stability are the key to healthy financial growth in the country.
Beirut - Former US President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to visit Lebanon in Decem
Beirut - Visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband started official talks with Lebanese leaders Wednesday, saying he hoped that stability would prevail in Lebanon until the upcoming parliamentary election due in May 2009.
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Beirut - Syria has rejected four ambassadorial candidates put forward to represent Lebanon in Syria, Lebanon's Naharnet news website reported Thursday.
