NNA - Let us build a new Lebanon, deputy Elie Marouni reportedly told visiting Maronite patriarch Rahi while on a visit to the Beqaa today.



We must all sit to the table of negotiations in pursuit of establishing a national economy based on peace and this is precxisely Bkirki's paramount role, he concluded.



Also, we behold Bkirki's statist project of a just nation, capable of preserving confessional coexistence as its message to the Orient, deputy Jamal Jarrah of the pro-Hariri Bloc told the patriarch. His Eminence the patriarch is indeed deeply concerned with the rise of a new Lebanon serving as a beacon to the Levant, MP Jarrah concluded.


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