MAJOR BEIRUT ROADS TO CLOSE FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EVENTS

The Daily Star
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April 24 2010
Lebanon

BEIRUT: Major thoroughfares in Greater Beirut will be closed or
temporarily blocked this weekend, due to commemorative events and
road works.

On Saturday, the northern lanes of the coastal highway between
Antelias and Nahr al-Mott will be closed from 11 am, as Lebanon’s
Armenian community march to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide.

The march will start at 11 am in front of the Armenian Orthodox
Catholocisate in Antelias and will end at the Bourj Hammoud municipal
stadium.

The Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Friday that the coastal
highway in the direction of Beirut will be closed to traffic until
the marchers arrive at the new Nahr al-Mott bridge.

The highway will be blocked to vehicles beginning at the
Naccashe-Demerdjian Center bridge, and traffic will be diverted to
Maritime Road.

When the procession arrives at the new Nahr al-Mott bridge,
the highway will be blocked in the direction of Saloumeh at the
following intersections: Jdeideh, Ittihad and Khabbaz, up to Bourj
Hammoud stadium.