Caretaker Minister of Education Abbas Al-Halabi, on Tuesday met with Head of the European Union Delegation to Lebanon, Ambassador Ralph Tarraf, who visited him with an accompanying delegation. 

Discussions reportedly touched on the preparations underway for the minister's visit to the EU’s headquarters in Brussels. 

The Education Minister separately welcomed a delegation from the Iraqi Ministry of Education. 

Al-Halabi then signed in front of the Iraqi delegation a protocol of cooperation between the Lebanese and Iraqi ministries, which constitutes a framework agreement to organize and speed up the services of granting authentications and equivalencies to Iraqi students studying in Lebanese universities. 

The Iraqi delegation duly transferred both copies of the agreement to Baghdad so that they would be signed by the Iraqi minister, provided that an original copy would be returned to Lebanon and signed by both sides for implementation.