NNA - House Speaker Nabih Berri met on Monday at his Ain-el-Tineh residence with the Prime Minister of

Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, over the current situation and the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Berri later met with the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon Najat Rochdi, with whom he signed a partnership agreement between the Lebanese parliament and the UN Country Team in Lebanon.

Berri also received the International Monetary Fund's permanent representative in Lebanon Frederico Lima.

He has separately received a cable form his Bulgarian counterpart Nikola Minchev, who congratulated him on his election for a new speakership term.

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