BEIRUT: MP Hagop Pakradounian requests two Armenian ministers

NowLebanon, Lebanon
May 30 2008

MP Hagop Pakradounian requests two Armenian ministers
May 30, 2008

Change and Reform MP Hagop Pakradounian met with Prime Minister Fouad
Siniora on Wednesday and gave the incumbent premier his `warmest
wishes’ as the head of `the cabinet of all Lebanese, and not the
leader of a group.’

Pakradounian also said he hoped President Michel Sleiman’s
inauguration speech would form the starting point of the new
national-unity government.

The MP requested two Armenian ministers in the new cabinet `as an
implementation of the Taif Agreement’ and as the fulfillment of `a
promise that [late] former premier Rafik Hariri had made.’

Pakradounian said he nominated former Minsiter Alain Tabourian for any
ministry that would guarantee Armenian participation in the
government.

-NOW Staff

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS