Aoun Tells Zaki Taef Accord Not 'Threatened'
President Michel Aoun on Thursday stressed that Lebanon is committed to the Taef Accord, during a meeting with Arab League Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki in Baabda.
At the beginning of the meeting, Aoun said he welcomes any Arab League initiative aimed at resolving the current Lebanese crisis, telling Zaki that Lebanon appreciates the care that the League is showing towards Lebanon.
The president also explained to Zaki “the reasons that have so far prevented the government’s formation and the obstacles that have been put in its way,” emphasizing that “Lebanon is committed to the implementation of the Taef Accord from which the constitution emerged.”
Aoun, however, stressed that “the constitution must be respected by everyone and its articles must be implemented, especially as to everything related to the formation, work and dissolution.”
“Everything that is being said contrary to that and anything hinting that the Taef Accord is threatened is unrealistic and being circulated by known sides concerned with the formation process,” the president said.
He added that “the head of the state is the only official who takes an oath to preserve the constitution.”
08 April 2021, 15:41
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Aoun to Arab League's Zaki: Lebanon is committed to Taef Accord
yes just like Aoun and Lebanon are committed to U.N Resolution 1701. I don't know who this man is fooling......
08 April 2021, 21:23
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Aoun presumably refers to the fifty-split of parliament between Christians and Muslims, regardless of electoral outcomes. Article 24 of the Constitution, it is the basis of Lebanon's instability. Noam Chomsky says Shia Muslims alone are more than half the national population.
09 April 2021, 18:00
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If Muslims were not the majority, the French-aligned Christians would not want the Taef set-aside.
09 April 2021, 14:49
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Yes, don’t worry Taef not threatened. But the whole country is and going down the drains, Lebanon a sinking ship and some are worries about Taef?
10 April 2021, 04:57
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In the transitory period
:a. The sects are fairly represented in the formation of the Cabinet.
:b. The rule of sectarian representation is abrogated. Jurisdiction and efficiency are adopted in public employment, the Judiciary, the military and security establishments, the public and mixed organizations, according to the exigencies of national harmony, with the exception of the jobs of the first rank and the equivalence of the first rank therein. These jobs are equally divided between Christians and Moslems without specifying any job to a specific sect, taking into consideration the two principles of jurisdiction and efficiency.
10 April 2021, 04:58
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Article 95 The Chamber of Deputies, lected on the basis of half Moslems and half Christians, must take the appropriate measures to eliminate political sectarianism, according to an interim plan, and the formation of a National Council under the presidency of the President of the Republic consisting, in addition to the President of the Chamber of Deputies and the Prime Minister, political, intellectual and social notables.
The mission of the Council is to study and suggest the means capable of eliminating the sectarianism, and introducing them to the Chamber of Deputies and the Council of Ministers, and to follow up on the interim plan.
10 April 2021, 05:06
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I think we know what to expect if Lebanon abandons sectarianism: France will find some help in punishing Lebanon. The US will use this excuse to bomb somebody somewhere. Israel will start to think about setting its slaves free.
What Lebanon needs is law. Look at the puffy language in Article 95, vague conditions that will never be fulfilled, vague standards for what happens in the meantime.
"Crazy" means, literally, "broken".
Oompa-Loompas should sit down with his neighbors in Hezbullah and urge them to support majority rule and minority rights with the assurance that all Lebanon will stand together against the colonialist and imperialist backlash. Israel is a constant reminder: racism does not work.
10 April 2021, 05:10
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I expect Israel's government, if not Noam Chomsky, knows the decimal point the ethnic demographics in Lebanon.
The Taef Accord is always described, at least in Wikipedia, as "unwritten". If you're going to have an unwritten agreement, it had better be something like "treat each person according to conduct, not appearance."
10 April 2021, 19:23
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Thanks for the correction. I was indeed thinking of the "national pact". The problem with the Taef Accord is that it has no force of law. Can you imagine the US Congress passing a law which is signed by the President that calls on everybody to be nice?
I assume you have a new alias since I've not seen this tag before yet you claim to be a student of mine. Why do you hide?
You have been crippled by a European education, evidently: "basically updated and reformed the Lebanese Constitution", without following the Constitution's own stated means of amending it, presumably. I think you will agree that Article 95 is a lot of empty talk.
The problem as I see it is that Hezbullah does not want majority rule. It fears French-US-Israeli retaliation.
