NNA – Caretaker Minister of Culture, Judge Mohammed Wissam Mortada, on Thursday welcomed in his office at the Sanayeh palace, Italian Ambassador to Lebanon, Nicoletta Bombardieri, with whom he discussed the bilateral cultural cooperation between the two countries.

Discussions also dealt with the already accomplished stages of the restoration work at the Tyre and Baalbek archaeological sites, and the interior works in the Tyre Museum.

The meeting also touched on the issue of the activities of the Italian university missions operating in Lebanon in several archaeological sites, and on the initial phase of implementing the heritage project at Mar Mikhael station - Gemmayze.

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