Beirut, on November 24, 2009

His Eminence the Sheikh of the Druze Monotheist Confession, El Sheikh Naim Hassan at the head of a delegation from the confessional council board of directors visited yesterday the Prime Minister El Sheikh Saad El Hariri in the big serail, in the presence of the the deputy Marwan Hamadeh. He said: “the visit was to congratulate the president Hariri for constituting the national unity government, we wished him to succeed in his missions and we expressed our support to the government. We hope that the treatment of the economic, social, health and educational issues will succeed especially that the dialogue subject is sponsored by the president of the republic Michel Sleiman in parallel with the government work.”

His Eminence added: “this visit comes between the independence and El Adha. Concerning the independence we wish that we will be unified on the national values, while concerning El Adha our vision is oriented today towards Venerable Makka, the motive of the prophet Mohamad God’s Praise and Peace be upon him, in this occasion we bless and congratulate the Lebanese and our Islamic and Arab Nation.