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Report: Saad Hariri Remaining in Lebanon until Midweek

Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri who had arrived in Lebanon overnight on Friday is expected to remain in the country until the middle of next week, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

It did not specify which day he is set to depart Beirut.

The former premier had arrived in Lebanon from the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh to attend a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the assassination of his father former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The commemoration was held in Beirut on Saturday.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan, ministers from the Mustaqbal bloc and March 14 alliance, head of the Mustaqbal bloc MP Fouad Saniora, and a number of political and economic figures met with Hariri on Saturday at his headquarters at the Center House in downtown Beirut.

Former PM Rafik Hariri was assassinated in a massive bombing in Beirut on February 14, 2005.


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