Jumblat to Host Suleiman and al-Rahi in Shouf

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat is expected to host this week outgoing President Michel Suleiman and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in the Shouf, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported.

According to the daily, Suleiman will chair on Friday a cabinet session and visit later on the Shouf town of Moukhtara to attend a banquet hosted by Jumblat to head the final reconciliation meeting in the village of Brih.

The town of Brih is witnessing reconciliation between Christians, who were displaced during the Lebanese Civil War, and the Druze in the area.

Suleiman would later head to the Shouf town of Deir el-Amar to inaugurate “President Michel Suleiman's Governmental Hospital.”

Sources told the newspaper that the president's speeches will express the national principles and the importance of the reconciliation between the Druze and Christians in Brih.

He will also tackle health and social conditions during the opening of the hospital in Deir el-Amar.

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