Culture Minister in the caretaker government, Mohamed Wissam Al-Murtada, received the new Algerian Ambassador to Lebanon, Rashid Bellabaki, along with Chargé d'Affaires Ben Sheikh Mohamed, on Wednesday at his office in the National Library - Palace of Snaïr. This was a protocol visit on the occasion of the ambassador's appointment in Lebanon, during which general issues and the "very special relationship that unites Algeria and Lebanon, as one people and two states" were discussed. They also agreed on the "necessity to remove any ambiguities that might affect this relationship, to keep the pages of love, brotherhood, and cooperation pure and unblemished," according to Al-Murtada's media office.