NNA - Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Beshara Boutros Rahi on Tuesday headed to Doha to meet an official invitation he had received from Qatar's Prince Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani.



Caretaker Minister of State, Salim Karam, bid the prelate farewell on behalf of the President of the Republic Michel Sleiman, at Rafic Hariri International Airport.



Speaking to reporters at the airport, Rahi said he hoped his meetings with the Qatari officials would beget positivity in dossiers like the abduction of the Orthodox archbishops in Syria.



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