A Cabinet session was held Thursday at the Grand Serail under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Tammam Salam despite the boycott of Free Patriotic Movement and Tachnag Party ministers.
Following the meeting, Information Minister Ramzi Jreij held a news conference saying that all controversial topics were postponed due to the absence of FPM and Tachnag ministers.
He announced that the Cabinet had given Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb the right to negotiate over the waste management crisis in order to ensure that trash will not return to the streets.
For his part, Industry Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan told reporters that him and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Fneish did not participate in any discussions and called on the government to postpone the meeting amid the absence of two main Christian components.