Kataeb leader Samy Gemayel arrived in Brussels on Monday to take part in the political assembly of the European People's Party (EPP), and attend the meeting of the executive committee of the Centrist Democrat International (IDC-CDI).

During his three-day visit, Gemayel will hold talks with senior officials in the EPP as well as the European Parliament.

He will also meet with Kataeb partisans in Belgium.

Gemayel was received at the Brussels Airport by the Lebanese Ambassador to Belgium, Fadi Hajj Ali, head of the Kataeb's chapter, Kamil Abou Assi, as well as party partisans.

The Kataeb leader is accompanied by the party's International Secretary Marwan Abdallah.

The Lebanese Kataeb party was unanimously elected in 2016 by the political assembly of the European People's Party to join a new partnership platform for parties from the MENA region.

Founded in 1976, the European People's Party, pan-European party of the centre-right, is the largest political organization in Europe with 80 parties and partners from 42 countries, 13 heads of state and government (both, EU and non-EU), 14 European Commissioners and the largest Group in the European Parliament.

EPP serves as the European division of the Centrist Democrat International which was founded in 1961.