Meeting of the Ministerial Committee entrusted with the revision of the Nationality Law || Newspapers (Arabic)

The Ministerial Committee headed by Minister Mokbel and entrusted with the revision of the last section of Clause 4 of the law regarding the transmission of nationality met to discuss this matter. The meeting was attended by Committee members Minister Chekib Kortbawi, Adnan Mansour, Marwan Charbel, Walid Daouk and Selim Jraissati.
The head of the Committee, Minister Mokbel, indicated at the end of the meeting that he has suggested to the other Committee members the need to have an audience with women organizations so as to be able to draft the committee report and recommendations to the attention of the Cabinet. Sources within the Committee indicated that the committee members considered the issue as quite complex and includes various legal, social, humanitarian, demographic and political considerations. They particularly reviewed the positive and negative impacts of a possible reform of the law at the level of the number of potential beneficiaries and whether “Lebanon can absorb them”. Another “complication” is whether the law should include spouses or simply children.

Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Assafir, Al-Diyar 2 November 2012