NNA – Head of the Progressive Socialist Party, MPnbsp;Taymour Jumblatt, visited todaynbsp;Al-Naameh Monasterynbsp;accompanied by a delegationnbsp;including MPs Marwan Hamadeh and Raji Al-Saad and party officials.
Jumblatt and the accompanying delegation were received by the General Headnbsp;of the Lebanese Maronite Order, Abbot Hadi Mahfouz, the head of the Naameh Monastery, Father Samir Al-Ghawi, as well as a number of officials from the order and heads of monasteries.
A luncheon banquetnbsp;was held in their honor,nbsp;duringnbsp;which Abbot Mahfouz spokenbsp;about the quot;historical relationship linking the Mukhtara, the Jumblatt family and the Progressive Socialist Party to the Lebanese Monastic Order.quot;
He thanked Jumblatt and his accompanyingnbsp;delegation for their visit and hoped for thenbsp;quot;continuation of cooperation for the good of thenbsp;Mountain and Lebanon,quot;nbsp;congratulatingnbsp;Jumblatt on assuming the presidency of the Progressive Socialist Party, succeeding his fathernbsp;Walid Jumblatt, who enjoys great respect among the Lebanese Monastic Order.
Jumblatt, in turn, thanked Abbot Mahfouz and the Lebanese Order for their warm reception, emphasizingnbsp;quot;the cooperation that existed with the former heads of the Order, including Abbot Basil Al-Hashem, whom the Order lost last week.quot;
The PSP Chief hopednbsp;for improvednbsp;conditions for the countrynbsp;and for Lebanon#39;s recoverynbsp;from its ordeal, so as to continue the process of cooperation in the future.
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