• The Issam Fares Lecture given by former US Secretary of State Mrs. Madeleine Albright under the title ‘The Promise of Peace’
• April: Inauguration of Issam Fares Office for services in Halba
• May 6: The launching of Issam Fares name on the Conference Hall at Notre Dame University of Louaize
• June 27: Conference held by the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon at the Antonine College in Baabda under the title ‘What President to what Republic?” Fares: “We have no other option but to resort to the language of rationalism’
• July 12: Meeting held by the Mayors and Heads of the Municipalities of Akkar at Fares office in Halba in support of the Lebanese Army
• August: Fares sponsors laying the cornerstone of the Issam Fares Cultural Center in Akkar
• October: The Issam Fares Center for Lebanon launches a booklet about ‘A President Made in Lebanon’
• November: The Issam Fares Center for Lebanon hosts a seminar on the Lebanese-American relations
• December: Fares to ‘Al Mawaheb’ Magazine: ‘Lebanon is strong and will overcome the conspiracies hatched against it’