Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, received at noon today in Bkirki, Foreign Affairs Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, accompanied by the director of political affairs in the ministry, Ambassador Ghadi Khoury.

Following their meeting, Minister Bou Habib said: “The purpose of my visit today to this edifice is to brief His Beatitude on the Kuwaiti initiative towards Lebanon…Additionally, I updated the Patriarch on the outcome of my recent visit to the United States and other visits, because it is very important that His Beatitude knows precisely what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is doing to reform matters, so as to receive his blessings and directives in this regard.”