Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, chaired at the Grand Serail on Monday, the first meeting for the ministerial committee tasked with drafting the new government's ministerial statement.

The committee comprises Ministers Ali Hassan Khalil, Mohammad Fneish, Akram Shehayeb, Salim Jreissati, Youssef Fenianos, Jamal Jarrah, May Chidiac, Mansour Bteish, Saleh Gharib and Kamil Abu Sleiman, in addition to the Cabinet's Secretary General Fouad Fleifel and Director General of the Presidency of the Republic Antoine Choucair.