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: info@armenianorthodoxchurch.org
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

FORMER MINISTER MICHEL EDDÉ AND HIS DELEGATION
DISCUSS THE STATUS OF LEBANESE DIASPORA
WITH HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

On Friday morning 6 March 2009, former Minister Michel Eddé and his
delegation representing the Maronite Church, visited His Holiness Aram I.
The purpose of the visit was to update His Holiness on their work regarding
the registration of Lebanese living abroad and not acquired the Lebanese
citizenship.

As a follow-up to this process that was being undertaken also by other
communities, the delegation requested from Catholicos Aram I that the
Armenian community also begins a similar process.

His Holiness Aram I welcomed the initiative and highlighted its importance
when mixed committees implement such a project in countries where there are
Lebanese communities. The new law the Lebanese Parliament will be adopting
will strengthen this process of registration. The Parliament will be
instructing all Lebanese Embassies to facilitate this task. A member of the
Executive Committee of the Armenian National Church Council, Mr. Hagop
Atechian was also present at this meeting.

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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
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.