NNA - House Speaker, Nabih Berri, on Monday chaired a meeting of the Parliament Bureau, attended by his deputy, MP Elias Bou Saab, the Secretaries of the Parliament Council, Hadi Abou Al- Hessen and Alain Aoun, the Commissioners, MPs Michel Moussa, Karim Kabbara, and Hagop Pakradounian, and the Parliament’s Secretary-General, Adnan Daher.

After the meeting, Bou Saab said that a general legislative session will be held upcoming Monday.

In response to a question about the discussion of the parliamentary elections law, Bou Saab said that Speaker Berri stressed the need to study all proposed electoral laws.

On the other hand, Speaker Berri received in Ain El-Tineh, Presidential Advisor for Reconstruction Affairs, Ali Hamieh, with whom he discussed the general situation and the reconstruction dossier.

Moreover, Berri offered his deepest condolences to Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, John X Yazigi, over the victims of the cowardly terrorist attack that targeted the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood of Damascus last night. Berri also extended his deepest condolences to the sons of the Orthodox Church in Syria and Lebanon, as well as the families of the fallen victims of the Mar Elias Church bomb attack, and wished the wounded speedy recovery.

Berri reiterated that "terrorism has no sect or religion, and that its sponsors, whether individuals, groups, or states, are enemies of God and His tolerant heavenly messages that came for the sake of human dignity, regardless of religion or sect."

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