Beirut, on July 18, 2011

His Eminence the Sheikh Akl of the Druze Unitarian Community the Sheikh Naim Hassan received at the House of the Druze Community in Verdun the Ambassador of the Iranian Islamic Republic in Lebanon Ghadanfar Rokon Abadi and delivered to him an invitation from the President of the Islamic Council of the State in the Iranian Islamic Republic, Dr Ali Larijani, to participate in the International Conference for Palestine, and which will be held on October 1st and 2nd in presence of the Presidents of Parliaments from all over the world, Palestinian leaders and Parliamentary officials as well as politicians. The Ambassador Abadi declared that " the meeting was an opportunity through which were discussed the current situation and the most recent events in the Middle East region in general, and inside Lebanon in particular.”
He added: “We congratulate the Lebanese for the constitution of the new government, and in the name of Iran, we wish to contribute to the economic and development projects for this dear country, in particular the projects related to the Lebanese people and their worries. Many agreements were signed between the two countries, and we assure that we are ready to put them in force."
In the light of his answer about the destiny of the agreements concluded with the government of the Prime Minister Saad Hariri, he said: "During the past year, thanks to the efforts of the concerned ministers and the Prime Minister, we signed 26 agreements with most of the concerned ministries and organizations between the Iranian Islamic Republic and Lebanon. We will strive to put these agreements in force so that the Lebanese people reach a concrete result in this context. We declared previously that we are ready to support Lebanon since Iran has reached a considerable level of progress in the fields of development, economy, industry, technology, sciences, agriculture and the search for oil under the seas, as well as all the expertise we have on the civil and military levels. We also support with pleasure all that is required from us for the neighbor country Lebanon."