Lebanon’s Parliament convenes on Tuesday for a two-day legislative session with over 45 bills on its agenda, said The Daily Star, expecting the meeting to proceed smoothly due to successful preparatory talks on the session between Premier Rafik Hariri and Speaker Nabih Berri.
Drafts to be examined during the session include a bill to amend the law on criminal procedures, one relating to foreign ownership of land and another calling for amending the military service law, said the Lebanese paper.
A law prepared last year by the government of Salim Hoss on merging construction and development councils might be amended, it added.
The draft, proposed by Hariri, allows the Council for Development and Reconstruction to remain independent and continue to exercise the same prerogatives it had prior to the endorsement of the merger law – Albawaba.com
