Caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali Hamieh, held a meeting in his office today with Lebanese Army Director of Geographical Affairs, Brigadier General Muhammad Al-Jabbawi, and Major Engineer Ali Darwish, in the presence of the Director General of Land and Maritime Transport, Ahmed Tamer. The meeting resulted in approving the principle of completing an agreement between the Public Works Ministry, the Lebanese Army Command and the Directorate of Geographical Affairs, assigning them to establish a geographical information base for maritime public property that includes a new survey of those properties and identifies the encroachments in all their details. Hamieh praised “the cooperation of the Lebanese Army Command, and its response with the Public Works and Transport Ministry in implementing this project in the required scientific and technical manner.” He also considered that such a new mechanism helps to properly approach a national issue par excellence, which constitutes a fundamental pillar in the vision that his ministry is pursuing especially in light of the difficult economic and financial conditions that Lebanon is currently experiencing. “The aim of today’s meeting is to agree on procedures for modernizing and mechanizing the full survey of the Lebanese coast, to identify areas and encroachments on the maritime public domain,” Hamieh asserted.
Source: National News Agency-Lebanon