| Governorate of North Lebanon |
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| Member of Parliament (MP) |
Actions relevant to Legislative Issues and
Monitoring Performance |
Source and Date of source |
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| Stances & Positions,
follow-up actions and meetings relevant to public policies as reported by the
media |
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| MP
Ahmed Fatfat |
The Monitor does not examine activities of
Ministers. |
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| Dinnieh MP |
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| Sports and Youth
Minister |
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| MP Elias Atallah |
Discussion of educational matters with Minister Qabbani |
National Education and Schools |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on September 27, 2005 |
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| Tripoli
MP
Member of the Agriculture and Tourism Committee
Member of the Human Rights
Committee |
A
meeting was held yesterday in the office of Education Minister Khaled
Qabbani. The meeting was also attended by North MPs Hashem Alameddine and Elias Atallah, in the presence of
the head of the Minieh Municipalities Federation, Mustafa Aql, and civil and
educational figures, as well as the owner of the School of Nabi Kazbeer. The
participants discussed with the minister the condition of the school
buildings in Minieh, their problems and proposals of solutions. Qabbani made
immediate contacts to follow up on the school's issue to solve it within the
legal framework. Malek will hand the Ministry a copy of a claim to remove the
joint ownership off the land the school is built on, so that the Ministry can
discuss an occupancy fee pending the complete settlement of this file. |
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It
was also agreed upon the expedition of the contracting of the Nabi Youshaa
School. Participants also discussed the issue of construction of a school for
girls in Hay al-Blatt and a public school in Hay Hamdoun. It was agreed upon
the continuous submission of bids and documents related to these two schools.
The minister was notified about assigning a new director for the Minieh High
School. At the end of the meeting, they invited the minister for a visit to
Minieh. He promised to do so soon. |
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Atallah:
Priority to end the mystery of the missing and release the detainees |
Defense of human rights |
Al-Mustaqbal daily on November
4, 2005 |
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MP Elias Attallah underlined the issue
of the missing in Syrian prisons and the detainees in Israeli prisons. He
stressed that he had no evidence of efforts undertaken by the Syrian
government with respect to the missing people, calling on the Lebanese
government to use more serious means to end this mystery. |
Foreign policy |
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Signature of a petition to support the rights of the disabled
and implement Law No. 220 |
Rights of the Disabled |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on November 30, 2005 |
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The Federation
of the Lebanese Associations of for the Lebanese Disabled launched the
national campaign to stimulate Law No. 220 on the rights of the disabled at
the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). A petition was signed with the
participation of MP Michel Moussa, representing the Speaker, in addition to
former Speaker Hussein Husseini, Social Affairs Minister Nayla Mouawad, MPs
Akram Chehayeb, Nasser Nasrallah, Ammar Houri, Nabil De Freij, Farid Khazen,
Wael Abou Faour, Elias Atallah,
Bahij Tabbara, Mohammed Raad, Ghassan Moukheiber, Atef Majdalani, Mohammed
Haidar, Jamal Taqsh, Hassan Hobballah, former minister Assaad Diab, MP Michel
Aoun's representative Naji Gharios, and Army Commander's representative
Colonel Hanna Kiwan. Present were also the head of the Lebanese Association
for the Disabled, Randa Berri; the head of ECOSOC, Roger Nasnas; Beirut's
mayor Abdel-Monem Ariss, the head of the General Labor Confedredration,
Ghassan Ghosn; his deputy Saadeddine Humeidi Saqr, ECOSOC's director Farouq
Yaghi; and others interested in issues related to the disabled. |
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| MP Antoine Zahra |
Hamadi searches and Zahra On the Situation of Batroun Hospital |
Hospitals
and Medical Sector |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on September 10, 2005 |
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| Batroun MP
Member of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants
Committee
Member of Displaced Affairs Committee |
The
Minister of Labor, Trad Hmaidi, welcomed in his office MP
Antoine Zahra who said after the meeting: "I displayed to Minister Hmaidi the
situation of the Batroun Hospital, the crisis it is undergoing through
currently, the rumors of cutting the hospital out from the social security
and transferring it to the Ministry of Health, the vital social role this
hospital plays, and the importance of clutching to enforce the success of the
experience of managing its insurance. We agreed with the Minister after I
transmitted mine and MP Boutros Harb's opinions that this hospital has to be
re-activated, reinforced, and adopt it in a practical manner by the Social
Security for at least the next four years." |
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Participation
in Batroun for Solidarity Meeting with the Arrested in Syria |
Defense
of Human Rights |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on January 7, 2006 |
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On the behalf
of himself and Boutros Harb who is outside the Country, MP
Antoine Zahra delivered a speech as follows:
"There are 15 citizens from Batroun who are as we understood have been
kidnapped, arrested, and we don’t know if they were put on trial and got
convicted in Syrian prisons amidst a politically and military tense era between
our community and the Syrian Army that was present on our land as invaders.
But what we cannot comprehend is the fact Boutros Khond was kidnapped from
the Lebanese Security Square and taken straight to Syrian prisons; till this
day he did not return." |
Foreign Policy |
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He continued:
"Someone may ask: 'why do you speak about this issue and disregard the
issue of prisoners in the Israeli prisons?' We reply: 'This issue is for sure
of national concern, but the difference from the prisoners in Israeli prisons
is the fact we know when they were arrested and where they are held in
prisons. As for the arrested in Syrian prisons, they were kidnapped, without
any trial, accusations, or the reasons were ever made known, and not even any
confession about their presence there. The Political, Judicial, and Lebanese
Security Authorities failed to provide any specific and clear evidence about
their fates. We join our voice to all voices that demand to raise their case
to the United Nations to form an international investigation committee with a
large privilege in order to be able to reach the places where they are held,
to discover their fate, return them, and allocate the just compensations to
them like any prisoner liberated from any prison. |
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Zahra Supports an
Electoral Law that Depends on Small Constituencies |
Electoral Law |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on March 4, 2006 |
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The
Member of the Lebanese Forces bloc, MP Antoine Zahra, hoped that "the National Committee to Place a Modern Law
for Parliamentary Elections has taken into account the issue of the
immigrants' rights to vote. This is demanded to preserve their right of
participation in the national life and revive communications between the
Lebanese residents and immigrants. Another two concerns for the Committee is
to adopt small constituencies in separating the electoral districts and the
lowering the voting age to 18." |
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| MP Boutros
Harb |
Harb
demands from Berri to open “M.T.V.” and reconsider “Criminal Procedures” |
Electoral Law |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 26, 2005 |
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| Batroun MP
Member
of Administration and Justice Committee
Member of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Committee |
MP Boutros Harb demanded from the
Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, to appoint a legislative session to
review the laws regarding criminal procedures, to adjust the item 68 from the
electoral law with the intent of explaining the legal script, and to allow
the M.T.V. station to broadcast again.” He justified that the circumstances
and the causes, which allowed the transformation of the General Persecutor to
become a partner with the authority and holder of both Judicial and Political
decisions, are gone. |
Public Freedom,
Poltics and Media |
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Harb
Demands from Berri a Public Session to Reopen MTV |
Electoral Law |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on August 5, 2005 |
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MP Boutros Harb requested from the
Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, to “hurry up in appointing a date and
directing the invitation to the public committee of the council to meet in a
nearby decision and legislate the displayed proposals, specially the
accelerated repeated law with the priority of reopening MTV. This repetitive
accelerated law was proposed by MP Harb and other MPs. This law is concerned
in the reopening of MTV television station and the modification of article 68
of the electoral law." |
Public Freedom,
Poltics and Media |
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Participating
in a Demonstration with the Parents of the Detainees in Syrian Prisons |
Foreign policy |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on December 5, 2005 |
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MP Boutros Harb said: "We
discover that that Lebanon's land has been transformed to a series of mass
graves which is scandalous and a crime against humanity. We demand our
government to transform this file into an item on its agenda for the next
meeting. The government should also
open an investigation through its local Lebanese authorities in collaboration
with the International and Local Red Cross in order to identify the locations
of these mass graves. It is the duty of the Lebanese State if failed to
persecute who committed these crimes to seek out the help of the
International Community and the humanitarian international institutions to
follow-up this case and transform this file from a Lebanese scale to humane
file at the international level. " |
Defense of
human rights |
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He also added:
"there will be a first meeting on today's Tuesday in regards to the
first mass grave discovered in Lebanon at the Ministry of Defense. This forms
a scandal because we cannot consider the investigation and political research
in a meeting as sufficient;
henceforth, we demand the opening of a real investigation in all regions
especially after reports were filed from several locations in Lebanon. |
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The most
important dimension is the case of the Lebanese present in Syrian and Israeli
prisons and we demand their release. We also would like to know why they were
arrested and transfer them to Lebanon's courts in case they committed a crime
so that our judicial system practices its authority and its role in achieving
justice. |
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Harb
President of "Judicial Development Council in Batroun" |
Municipalities
Affairs, Districts and Constituencies |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on March 23, 2006 |
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The
"Judicial Development Council in Batroun" elected a new
administrative body, and MP Boutros Harb won in default the Presidency while Antoine Salhab won its
Vice-Presidency, Hamid Daoud the Secretary, Wassim Abi Saab the treasury, and
Odein Salloum member at large of the association to the government. The Consultants are: Joseph Basil, Nazem
Hamadi, Michel Morcos, Kamal Boutros, Maroun Shakkour, Lor Suleiman Saab, and
Isam Akiky. |
Civil Society Affairs |
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Harb
asks the Government to demand an Arab and International Investigation in the
case of the Missing and Prisoners |
Foreign
policy |
Al-Mustaqbal daily on June 3, 2006 |
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MP Boutros Harb asked the government
to "deposit the file of the Lebanese detainees in Syrian and Israeli
prisons at the Arab League and United Nations in order they perform an
overall investigation in regards to this painful humanistic subject which the
current adopted methodologies failed so far to solve." |
Defense of
human rights |
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| MP Moustapha Hachem |
Participation
in the Agenda of the Symposium
"Environment in Akkar" |
Environment |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 18, 2005 |
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| Akkar MP
Member of National Economy, Commerce, Industry and Planning
Committee
Member of Public Works, Transportation, Water and Energy
Committee |
MP Hachem saw that the "dark
picture to the environmental situation in Akkar should be a motivation for
its MPs to work extensively, and it should be also a motivation to raise
awareness among people on the dangers of polluting the environment. We placed
on the top of our priorities the project of hygienic sewage network, and this
project is not new. During the days of the martyred Prime Minister Rafiq
Harriri, we submitted a developmental paper of all the projects of Akkar and
the martyred Prime Minister then promised us with support and funding from
the Islamic Bank with a sum of 900 million dollars in separate payments,
which should be sufficient to cover all necessarily projects to raise Akkar
out of this current situation. However, the renewal to President Emil
Lahoud's mandate and his incompetence both knocked out everything." |
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He
also added: "We have the ambition to execute the Qolay'at airport and a
free zone project, which from the very beginning it will provide 5000 job
opportunities. The project in the next
five years should generate over 18,000 job opportunities. It will not cost
the State anything because it is proposed in the style of Construction,
Operation, and Delivery (BOT). Sadly, the President of the Republic didn’t
till now sign the decree of forming a committee concerned for the project.
We, the Akkar MPs Gathering, are also initiating the building of the
governmental Halba hospital as soon as possible. We shall provide, as well,
attention to the drinking and sanitation of water." |
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Hachem: Mouawad Airport awaits the Signature on the Decree of
the High Commission for Civil Aviation |
Ground,
Sea, and Air Transportation |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 27, 2005 |
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MP Mustapha
Hachem said: "We discussed several issues that are of concern to the
region from a developmental dimension. One of the discussed issues was the
Qolay'at Airport, and the process of bidding it through the B.O.D methodology
because that is the only developmental project that will secure for the area
on the spot 5000 job opportunities whose number will increase in the coming
years. In other words, the project will allow Akkar to enter the economic
cycle of the nation. We discussed other issues such as roads and schools, and
specially the sanitary disposal because today in Akkar we are facing a large
problem, which is the pollution of drinking water as a result of sanitary
drillings. |
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We were waiting
for the signature of the Decree of the High Commission for Civil Aviation by
his Excellency the President; while the Prime Minister then, Najib Miqati
when he was the Minister of Public Works and Information, informed me in a
symposium at Akkar that Qolay'at Airport has six corporations interested in
investing in the Qolay'at Airport, aka "The International Rene Mouwad
Airport". |
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Discussing
Agricultural Topics with the Minister of Economy |
Agriculture
Policies |
Al-Mustaqbal daily on August 12, 2005 |
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The Coalition
of Akkar MPs met with the Minister of Economy, Sami Haddad, under the context
of following-up on the developmental projects for the Akkar Constituency. The
MPs were: "Mustapha Hachem, Riyad Rahhal, Azzam Dandachi,
and Hadi Hobeich. |
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Representing
the Coalition, MP Hachem said: "We talked with Minister Haddad on the
issue of the farmers of wheat in Akkar, and how to harvest the agricultural
crops of wheat because the date to receive this crop for the year is due the
next two days. |
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Position
from allowing the integration of Egyptian Potatoes to the Market |
Agriculture Policies |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on March 25, 2006 |
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MP Mustapha Hachem requested the
revision of trade contacts signed by Lebanon with some countries. He
confirmed his support to the demands of the potato farmers in the North and
demanded from the Ministry of Agriculture to take the precautions of
protecting this sector as well as other sectors. In the light of this, the
farmers of the region have been under a lot of pressure because of the rise
in the costs of production, increased competition, the lack of protective
procedures that should have been applied by the Ministry of Agriculture to
protect the interests of the farmers, and the non-availability of monitoring
the entrance of products that already exists in Lebanon. |
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| MP Hachem Alameddine |
Discussion of educational matters with Minister Qabbani |
National Education and Schools |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on September 27, 2005 |
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| Minyeh
MP
Member of Information and Telecommunications Committee
Member of Agriculture and Tourism Committee |
A
meeting was held yesterday in the office of Education Minister Khaled
Qabbani. The meeting was also attended by North MPs Hashem
Alameddine and Elias Atallah, in the presence of
the head of the Minieh Municipalities Federation, Mustafa Aql, and civil and
educational figures, as well as the owner of the School of Nabi Kazbeer. The
participants discussed with the minister the condition of the school
buildings in Minieh, their problems and proposals of solutions. Qabbani made
immediate contacts to follow up on the school's issue to solve it within the
legal framework. Malek will hand the Ministry a copy of a claim to remove the
joint ownership off the land the school is built on, so that the Ministry can
discuss an occupancy fee pending the complete settlement of this file. |
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It
was also agreed upon the expedition of the contracting of the Nabi Youshaa
School. Participants also discussed the issue of construction of a school for
girls in Hay al-Blatt and a public school in Hay Hamdoun. It was agreed upon
the continuous submission of bids and documents related to these two schools.
The minister was notified about assigning a new director for the Minieh High
School. At the end of the meeting, they invited the minister for a visit to
Minieh. He promised to do so soon. |
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Launching of
the Center for Information and Internet |
Internet
and Information Technology |
Annahar
Daily on March 6, 2006 |
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The
Center for Information and Internet was launched at the Center for
Developmental Services in the Sair (Donniyeh) Municipalities under the
supervision of the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Administrative
Development. and the UNDP. It was attended by the State Minister of
Administrative Development Affairs, Jean Oghassabian, Acting General-Director
of the Ministry of social Affairs Mohammad Allayli, MP
Hachem Alameddin, and Chairman of the Association
of the Dunieh Municipalities, Mohammad Saadieh. |
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| MP
Elie Keyrouz |
Keyrouz meets the School
Officials in Besharri |
National
Education and Schools |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on October 18, 2005 |
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| Besharri
MP
Member of Human Rights Committee
Member of Youth and Sports Committee |
MP
Elie Keyrouz met with the private schools'
officials and principals of the region at Hotel February's Hall in Besharri,
with the presence of the Head of the Municipalities' Association Nowfal
Shidrawi and head of the municipality Hassroun, Emil Farah. MP Keyrouz said:
"The problems of education are increasing in the light of the worsening
and degradation of the economic situation.
The current problems are currently the problem of the roads during the
winter semester which we hope it will improve in collaboration with the
Ministry of Public Works and the Association of Municipalities, the problem
of heating, and the problem of the school fees." He pointed out to
"the need from each school to provide us with its needs in relations to
the latter two problems in order for us to study the potentials of support
and provide assistance. As for the rest of the problems, they are tied to the
reality of the developmental region as a whole and the Conference for
Development, which we are preparing, shall relate to it according to an
overall developmental perspective." |
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Municipaities
of Becharri meet with the Presence of Sethrida Jaajaa and Elie Keyrouz |
Municipalities
Affairs, Districts and Constituencies |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on May 16, 2006 |
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The Association of
Besharri Municipalities held a meeting in Deman, with the participation of MP
Sethrida Jaajaa, Elie Keyrouz, Chairman of the Association Nowfal Shidrawi,
his deputy Elie Makhlouf, and the members of the Association's board members,
the heads of the municipalities of the region. |
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Keyrouz objects the transfer
of the Faculty of Dentistry |
High
Education and the Lebanese University |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on September 30, 2006 |
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In a comment of the
attempt of moving the Dentistry Faculty in the Lebanese University from its
headquarters in Sin el-Feil to the University Compound in Hadath, MP Elie Keyrouz, of the Lebanese
Forces, pointed out that this step is bizarre to come at a time where the
entire Lebanese University is the subject open for discussion. This maneuver
hints a proactive step to impose a reality which might be followed by similar
steps, knowing that it will also be followed by disastrous consequences.
Also, it shouldn’t be forgotten that it faces unanimously a rejection from
the overall family of the faculty: professors, administrators, and students. |
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Keyrouz requested the
residents of the Lebanese University not to handle this issue as if it was an
internal administrative policy because it is a political issue and it
reflects a national dimension in a critical stage where reason and vision are
needed to overcome the ignition of more problems and divisions. |
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He concluded to say
that the Dentistry Faculty is part of the file that is biologically connected
to the National Consensus. Having said so, the attempt of transferring the
location of the faculty till agreement on the final decision is reached in
relations to the overall Lebanese University, its branches, and its different
affairs should be frozen. |
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