Final Lebanese

Government Line-Up
Has Just Been
Released
Media sources have confirmed that the government will
be formed on Friday, January 17.

@AP/Hassan Ammar

The last "knot" of the formation of the government

has finally been untangled with MP Gebran
Bassil's approval of Demianos Kattar to be the
minister of labor (even though he is not affiliated
with the Free Patriotic Movement).

Sources have confirmed that the meeting to be

held on Thursday between prime minister Hassan
Diab and speaker of parliament Nabih Berri will
finalize the names of the Shiite ministers and the
final drafts of the line-up.

It became certain that the formation would consist

of 18 ministers, not 24. PM Diab chose his cabinet
ministers from names nominated by the political
parties participating in the government.