Geagea broaches latest local and regional developments with Turkish Ambassador
NNA - Lebanese Forces Party leader, Samir Geagea, on Wednesday received in Maarab, the newly appointed Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon, Murat Lutem, who came on a protocol visit.
The meeting took place in the presence of LF Executive Committee member and former MP Eddy Abi Lama, Head of the Party's foreign relations apparatus, former Minister Richard Kouyoumjian, and Apparatus official Tony Darwish.
The meeting discussed "the latest local and regional developments and their repercussions on Lebanon and the region."
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