NNA - Sports and Youth Minister, Faysal Karami, said Thursday the Youth and Sports Ministry was changed from a secondary directorate to a sovereign ministry prone to look into the affairs of 60% of Lebanese people.
Karami also announced in a TV interview that the budget of his ministry was raised from 8 billion Lebanese Pounds sum to 24 billion Lebanese Pounds, assuring that the "ministry's objective is to annually build five sportive centers."
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