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9:00 am     Training workshop organized by UNESCO office - Beirut as part of its efforts to support journalists and promote freedom of expression, especially during elections, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Beirut.

9:00 am       Beirut Port’s Union of Employees and Workers holds elections at the port's visitors' hall.

10:00 am     Celebration by the National Council for Scientific Research marking the sixtieth anniversary of its founding under the patronage of Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, at the Grand Serail.

11:00 am      Press conference by the Coordinating Council of Public Sector Retirees at the Editors’ Syndicate.

11:00 am      Celebration in honor of the mothers and wives of Beirut Fire Brigade martyrs marking Mother's Day organized by the "Beit Al Mawjouin" Association, under the patronage of Beirut Governor, Judge Marwan Abboud, at Beirut Fire Brigade headquarters in Karantina.

11:00 am      "Lebanon, the Heart of the Middle East - a New Europe" conference at the invitation of the founding body of the "Arabism vision" at the Al-Bustan Hotel in Beit Meri.

11:30 am      Head of the "National Dialogue" party, MP Fouad Makhzoumi, visits Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian.

12:00 am     General assembly meeting by the Syndicate of Truck Owners and Fuel Transport Contractors in Lebanon at the General Labor Confederation’s headquarters in the presence of head of the land transport unions, Bassam Tlais.

12:00 pm      Sunni seat candidate for Beirut's second constituency, Iyad Merhi, holds a press conference at the Press Club, Chevrolet Intersection, Palm Center Building, seventh floor.

1:30 pm        Information Minister Ziad al-Makari receives a Tele Liban delegation.

4:00 pm        Ceremony at the Lebanese National Library titled "Reading in the Book of Nature Reserves" at the invitation of Ministers of Environment and Culture Nasser Yassin and Mohammad Wissam Al-Mortada, as part of the activities of "National Reserves Day".

4:00 pm        Panel discussion on the French language in Lebanon within the framework of the Francophone month in Lebanon, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture. The  discussion will be broadcast live on the Facebook page of the Francophone University Agency in the Middle East (www.facebook.com/AUF.MoyenOrient).

==========================R.H.