The Mayor of Baalbeck, General Hussein Lakis, and the President of the Union of Municipalities of Baalbeck, Mr. Nasri Othman, participated in the launching of the Lebanese-German Municipal Partnership Program which gathered twenty Lebanese municipalities and federations of municipalities as well as German municipalities, NGOs and officials from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The event was held in Germany from February 27 to March 1, 2018 following the invitation of the Municipality of Munich.
As a result of the conference, each Lebanese municipality established a contact with a German municipality in an attempt to study the possibility of starting conjoint developmental projects that would be financed by the Federal Ministry. A direct communication between the municipalities of Baalbeck and Munich was also initiated in the same context of collaboration.