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EMBASSIES RESERVED FOR CONFESSIONS Lebanon 5,000LL | Saudi Arabia 15SR | UAE 15DHR | Jordan 2JD| Syria 75SYP | Iraq 3,500IQD | Kuwait 1.5KD | Qatar 15QR | Bahrain 2BD | Oman 2OR | Yemen 15YRI | Egypt 10EP | Europe 5Euros INDEX 4 LEADER: Embassies reserved for confessions 10 Civil Service Board Report for 2008: An absence of ‘national belonging 12 Grade One salaries 14 Cost of Tele Liban 16 Municipal and Ikhtiyariah elections in Northern Lebanon 24 Association of Lebanese Industrialists 25 Farmers Syndicate 27 Irfan (i’rfan) Monotheistic Organization Page 43 29 Near East School of Theology 31 Antibiotic Overuse & Abuse by Dr. Hanna Saadah 32 The Church modernized the calendar by Antoine Boutros Page 37 PagePage 2255 33 Phoenicia in the Roman era by Dr. Hassan Salameh Sarkis 34 The Monthly interviews Chargé D’affaires of Kazakhstan to Lebanon Yerzhan Kalekenov 47 36 Popular culture Real estate index in Lebanon-Lebanono - Jauary 2010 37 Myth #31: The First Law School in the World 48 Food Price Index - Januarynuary 20102010 050 38 Must-read books: About This Man Called Ali 50 Hunger in the world 39 Must-read children’s book: 50 “Gilgamesh, the Hero of Mesopotamia” Beirut Rafic Hariri Internationalational Airport - January 2010 40 Lebanon Families; Franjieh 50 Lebanon stats 41 Discover Lebanon: Sindianet Zeidan 42 Franjieh to Patriarch Sfeir 43 January 2010 Timeline in Lebanon 45 Decision of barring 500 Iraqi candidates to escalate political crisis of Iraq 46 The Next Haiti Could Be the Middle East EditorialEditorialﹺ | 3 AN EYEWITNESS OF THE CIVIL WAR APPOINTMENT OF Son: Daddy, what is your job? 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This is what we call nation building! issueissusuue 9292 --M MarchMarcarchaarrcrchrchch 201022020101010 4 | Leader Embassies reserved for confessions Lebanon’s ambassadors, who are they? EMBASSIES RESERVED FOR CONFESSIONS he appointment of ambassadors takes confessions into consideration -as is the case with all government positions that are classified grade one, especially in the judiciary and military. For example, high-profile Tambassadorships are reserved for certain confessions and are only be transferred in exceptional cases. More importantly, ‘confessional custom’ dictates that the foreign minister is a Shia’a, the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s secretary general is a Sunni and the director general of immigrants is a Shia’a. Tasks of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants By law, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants is A Directorate of Political and Consular Affairs responsible for Lebanon’s foreign policy affairs in terms A Directorate of Economic Affairs of preparation, coordination, execution and following A Directorate of Emigrants up on the affairs of emigrants. A Directorate of Protocol A Directorate of International Organizations, Establishment of the Ministry of Emigrants Conference and Cultural Relations The Ministry of Emigrants was established by Law # 213 A Directorate of Administrative and Financial Affairs dated April 2, 1993 and the name of Ministry of Foreign A Legal Consultations, Research and Documentation Affairs and Emigrants was changed into Ministry of Center Foreign Affairs. A Inspection The law specified the tasks of the Ministry of Emigrants as A Archives “activating the role of Lebanese expatriates community, A Codes sponsoring the affairs of emigrants and working to A Chamber strengthen ties between the expatriates and Lebanon, A Press Office developing cooperation between them and affiliated bodies in addition to participating in international The number of posts in the diplomatic corps are 272 activities related to emigration affairs.” distributed as follows: The law set the ministry’s personnel at 114 employees A Grade One: Secretary general, ambassador, director including 24 attaches abroad who eventually were added or delegated minister (69 posts) to the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following A Grade Two: Advisor or general consul (69 posts) a political and legal crisis. A Grade Three: Secretary, attache or deputy consul Law # 247 dated August 7, 2000 abolished the Ministry (134 posts) of Emigrants and annexed the Directorate General of Emigrants to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which (There is a decree that specifies the number of posts at regained its previous name Ministry of Foreign Affairs 116 but it neglected to include a number of positions and Emigrants. under this ranking after the establishment of new embassies or consulates) Structure and personnel The ministry’s personnel if formed of the diplomatic As for the administrative corps the number of posts are corps (diplomatic and consular) and the administrative 197: corps. The central administration consists of the A Grade Two: 5 posts following units: A Grade Three: 29 posts A Grade Four: 108 posts A Grade Five: 55 posts issue 92 - published by Information International s.a.l. Embassies reserved for confessions Leader | 5 Number of ambassadors [Graph 1] Lebanese Ambassadors by confession Lebanon has 59 ambassadors abroad (11 of whom are of Number Grade Two). Table 1 shows their distribution according 20 to confession, country and date of appointment. There are 20 also 14 vacancies. 15 There are 30 Christian ambassadors: 20 Maronites, six 14 Greek Orthodox, three Catholics and one Armenian 10 Orthodox. There are also 29 Muslim ambassadors: 14 10 Shia’a, 10 Sunni. and five Druze. (Graph 1) 6 5 5 3 The 14 vacancies are distributed on the following confessions 1 according to the last the confession of the last ambassador 0 Confession Maronite Greek Armenian Greek Shia’a Sunni Druze to occupy the post (it is not necessary for the post to be Catholic Orthodox Orthodox reassigned based on the previous confessional distribution): Five Maronites, two Catholics, one Greek Orthodox, four [Graph 2] Vacant Lebanese embassies by last Sunni, one Shia’a and one A’alawi. (Graph 2) occupant’s confession Number Therefore, the confessional distribution of the 63 embassies 10 is: 25 for the Maronite confession, five Catholic, seven Greek Orthodox and one Armenian Orthodox adding up 8 to 38 posts for Christians. The Muslims have 35 posts: 15 for the Shia’a, 14 for the Sunni, five for the Druze and one 6 for the A’alawi. 5 4 According to age requirements, 14 ambassadors will retire 4 this year and next year and 18 ambassadors will retire in the next four years. (Graph 3) 2 2 According to gender, females have only six postings while 111 males have 53 posts. (Graph 4) 0 Confession Maronite Sunni Greek Greek Shia’a A’alawi Orthodox Catholic [Graph 3] Lebanese Ambassadors by Age [Graph 4] Lebanese Ambassadors by gender Number Number 10 100 10 80 8 77 7 6 60 53 6 5 5 4 40 4 2 2 20 2 111 1 6 Gender Age 0 0 Male Female 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 51 49 issue 92 - March 2010 6 | Leader Embassies reserved for confessions Lebanon’s ambassadors according to confession and country Table 1 Retire- Date Ap- # Name of Ambassador Current Post Date of Birthment Date pointed Previous Post Maronite 1 Boutros Jirjis Asaker France and Non Resident in Andorra 1949 2013 21-Jun-07 Central Administration 2 Silvie Edward Dagher Fadlallah UNESCO 1948 2012 21-Jun-07 France 3 Cahrbel Youssef Aoun Jordan 1950 2014 21-Jun-07 Central Administration 4 Victor Youssef El Zamtar Indonesia 1948 2012 21-Jun-07 Kongo Consul General in Los 5 Charbe Boutros Wehbe Venezuela 1953 2014 21-Jun-07 Angelos 6 Melhem Mesto Rome and non Resident in Malta 1947 2011 25-Oct-03 Bulgaria Austria and Non Resident in Croatia, 7 Kozhaia Toufic El Khoury Slovenia, Slovakia, UN and Interna- 1951 2015 21-Jun-07 Central Administration tional Agencies in Vienna 8 Aziz El Khoury Jirjis El Kazi Bahrain 1947 2011 21-Jun-07 Central Administration Najla Victor Riachi (Latin married to Amb.