Suleiman Heads to Kuwait to Attend Arab Summit
President Michel Suleiman traveled on Monday to the Gulf Monarch Kuwait at the head of a delegation to attend the Arab League Summit as the situation in Lebanon is expected to top its agenda.
The delegation is comprised of Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, Health Minister Wael Abou Faour along with a number of advisers and security and administrative delegations.
Suleiman will address the summit on Tuesday afternoon with a speech expected to focus on the influx of Syrian refugees to Lebanon and the support to the Lebanese army.
Nearly one million Syrians are registered as refugees by the U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon. The poorest 140,000 live in 460 informal camps, where they live in poorly insulated tents with no clean running water and with sewage running down ditches between tents.
The president is also expected to demand the Arab countries to commit to their obligations regarding Lebanon.
Suleiman reportedly has a busy schedule in Kuwait as he hold sideline meetings with senior Arab officials attending the summit.
Kuwait said 13 heads of state have confirmed they are attending the two-day summit, which kicks off on Tuesday and will be held this year under the slogan of "solidarity for a better future".
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