(13 Jan 2025)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 13 January 2025
1. Exterior of the Grand Serail, the Lebanese prime minister’s office
2. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati meeting with the Secretary-General of the Cairo-based Arab Leagu,e Ahmed Aboul Gheit
3. Mikati speaking
4. Aboul Gheit during meeting
5. Various of meeting
6. Aboul Gheit entering briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League:
"I also hope that by the end of the day that there will be an agreement on a prime minister for Lebanon, thereby completing the pillars of the Lebanese state. With the completion of these elements, Lebanon would be ready for a fresh start to resolve and address many of the issues that have hindered it for years."
8. Exterior of Ain al-Tineh Palace, the residency of Lebanese speaker of parliament
9. entering palace
10. Meeting between Aboul Gheit and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri
11. Berri
12. Aboul Gheit
13. Various of meeting
14. Exterior of Lebanese Foreign Ministry
15. Various of Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib receiving Aboul Gheit outside the ministry
16. Bou Habib and Aboul Gheit seated
17. Aboul Gheit
18. Bou Habib
19. Aboul Gheit entering meeting room
20. Flags on table
21. Various of meeting between Aboul Gheit, Bou Habib and delegations
22. Exterior of Lebanese Foreign Ministry
STORYLINE:
The Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit held talks with senior Lebanese officials on Monday during a visit to Beirut.
The visit comes after Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year presidential vacuum.
"I also hope that by the end of the day that there will be an agreement on a prime minister for Lebanon, thereby completing the pillars of the Lebanese state," Aboul Gheit.
The president’s role in Lebanon is limited under the power-sharing system in which the president is always a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament Shiite.
However, only the president has the power to appoint or remove a prime minister and Cabinet.
The caretaker government that has run Lebanon for the last two years has reduced powers because it was not appointed by a sitting president.
Aboul Gheit said he hoped Lebanon would get "a fresh start to resolve and address many of the issues that have hindered it for years."
Aboul Gheit later met with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
The Arab League congratulated Berri on overseeing the election of a new president and discussed regional developments, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency.
The vote came weeks after a tenuous ceasefire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and at a time when Lebanon’s leaders are seeking international assistance for reconstruction.
Aboul Gheit also met with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.
AP video shot by Ali Sharafeddine
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