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  • Antelias: HH Aram I receives the representative of the Lebanese PM

    PRESS RELEASE
    Catholicosate of Cilicia
    Communication and Information Department
    Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
    Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
    Fax: (04) 419724
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.cathcil.org/

    PO Box 70 317
    Antelias-Lebanon

    Armenian version: http://www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/Armenian.htm


    HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH THE REPRESENTATIVE
    OF THE LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER


    The representative of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora, Culture
    Minister Tarek Mitri, visited His Holiness Aram I in Bikfaya on August 26.

    On behalf of the PM, the minister thanked His Holiness Aram I for his
    efforts in favor of Lebanon during these times of crisis, especially in
    international circles. The minister also talked about the current situation
    in Lebanon, the external and internal factors affecting it and the
    continuing efforts for national consensus with the aim of sustaining the
    country's internal unity.

    The Pontiff and the minister also discussed the issue of potential Turkish
    contribution to the UNIFIL forces in South Lebanon. The Catholicos asked
    minister Mitri to inform the PM of the Lebanese Armenian community's and his
    personal objection to the participation of Turkey in the peacekeeping
    forces.

    "This is not only an Armenian issue, it is a problem for Lebanon, a problem
    for the Arab World, when Turkish history is full of massacres, human rights
    violations and past and present injustices. Our opposition to the
    participation of Turkey in the UNIFIL forces comes to express the just
    demands of all those nations that have suffered under the bloody hands of
    the Ottoman-Turkey. Our people will oppose to all attempts aimed at casting
    shadow over irrefutable historical facts for the sake of political
    considerations," His Holiness said.

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    The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
    the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
    mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
    Catholicosate, http://www.cathcil.org/ The Cilician Catholicosate, the
    administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.
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