Lahoud Receives Al-Saidi and Abu-Ghazaleh
08 Mar 2003BEIRUT - During June 13-14, a conference will be held in the Lebanese capital entitled “Towards an Electronic Lebanon”, under the patronage of His Excellency President of Lebanon Emile Lahoud, and under the joint organization of the Bank of Lebanon and the UN Inofrmation and Communication Technologies Task Force.
Yesterday, President Lahoud received the Deputy Governor for the Bank of Lebanon and member of the UN Developmental Policies Committee, Dr. Nasser Al-Saidi, and Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Vice-Chairman of the UN ICT Task Force and Head of the UN ICT Task Force Arab Network. Messrs. Al-Saidi and Abu-Ghazaleh presented President Lahoud with the conference program, and thanked His Excellency for sponsoring this important event and for his personal interest in directing the transformation process towards a knowledge society in Lebanon.
Abu-Ghazaleh and Al-Saidi also listened to the President’s directives on the conference topics and what practical decisions can result from it, with the objective of putting a strategy in place that relevant society sectors can participate in. These sectors include universities, labor unions and civil society organizations, in addition to the governmental sector represented by its ministries and public institutions.
It is worth noting that this conference will take place prior to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in December 2003, where President Lahoud will head the Lebanese delegation.
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