CATHOLICOS ARAM I MEETS WITH MINISTER OF CULTURE TAREK MITRI
Noyan Tapan
Ma y 26, 2008
ANTELIAS, MAY 26, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. Tarek Mitri, the
Minister of Culture of Lebanon, visited Aram I, the Catholicos of the
Great Cilician House, on May 23. The meeting between His Holiness
and the Minister, which was held in the office of the Catholicos,
was of intimate character. It is mentioned that they are close friends
and have worked together for many years within the frameworks of the
interchurch movement of the World Council of Churches.
Minister Mitri toroughly introduced the situation hindering the Qatar
meeting of the political forces of Lebanon, and the issues on the
inner folds of the consultations during the conference.
His Holiness expressed his content with the victory the whole Lebanon
has registered, "where there are no losers, there is only one winner:
the whole Lebanon with all its communities and parts, with its people
and authority."