Time.       Topic

An open strike by employees of the State Employees Cooperative "to restore salaries to their purchasing power as they were before the start of the crisis."

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Program of the visit of the Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals, Manhal Aziz Al-Najjar:

 9:00 Meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail.

10:00 Official talks at the Ministry of Industry - Badaro

11:00 Visit to the Industrial Research Institute in Hadad - the campus of the Lebanese University

14:00 A Meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain El-Tineh

 14:30 A meeting with industrialists and businessmen at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Beirut and Mount Lebanon in Hamra

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11:00.      MP Ibrahim Kanaan chairs a meeting of the Finance and Budget Committee
 
 

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