Farès Boueiz

Farès Boueiz ( Arabic فارس بويز; * January 15, 1955 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese lawyer and politician who served as two-time foreign minister and environment minister. He is of Christian faith .

Career

Farès Boueiz served as Foreign Minister from 1990. He stayed that way until 1992, when he left his post for a few months in protest against the general elections in 1992 and was temporarily replaced by Nasri Maalouf . It was Boueiz who, after a long period, attended the first official meeting in mid-May 1991 with Faruk Kadumi from the Political Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

He continued his work as Foreign Minister from 1992 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Rafic Hariri . He and Hariri had a tense relationship as Hariri was always involved in foreign policy. When Boueiz was in office, his father-in-law, Élias Hraoui, became President of Lebanon. In 1998, Selim Hoss replaced Boueiz as Foreign Minister.

Boueiz was one of the presidential candidates after Émile Lahoud's first term in 2004. In 2003 Boueiz was appointed Environment Minister in the cabinet led by Rafic Hariri, replacing Michel Musa in this post. Boueiz was an independent member of the cabinet. He resigned on September 7, 2004 to protest the amendment that extended Lahoud's term as president. With him, three other ministers resigned, including Marwan Hamadeh , Ghazi Aridi and Abdullah Farhat. All four ministers voted against the extension of the term in parliament .

Minister of State Michel Musa replaced Boueiz as acting minister of the environment. Boueiz served as a member of parliament and represented Kesrouan until 2005 . After the end of Lahoud's tenure, Boueiz was re-run as a presidential candidate in 2007. In the 2009 general election , he was no longer on the March 14 Alliance list .

Points of view

Boueiz worked with the Syrian authorities during his second term as Foreign Minister . However, in 2001 he denied the Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass's allegations regarding the Maronite Patriarch Sfeir . On the other hand, Boueiz was skeptical about the peace agreement between Israel and the PLO in 1993 and stated that Palestinian refugees should not settle in Lebanon due to the sensitive demographic balance between native Christians and Muslims in the country. During talks with Egyptian told diplomats in early April 1998 Boueiz that the treatment of the Jewish people by the Nazis based on political reasons and that "they arrogantly behaved as the chosen people of God."

Personal

Farès Boueiz is the son-in-law of the Lebanese President Élias Hraoui. Boueiz married his daughter Zalfa Hraoui in 1985.

Individual evidence

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5. ^ Simon Haddad: The Palestinian Impasse in Lebanon: The Politics of Refugee Integration . Sussex Academic Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-903900-46-8 , pp. 35 ( online [accessed July 18, 2013]).
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7. ↑ ^{a b} Rola el Husseini: Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon . Syracuse University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8156-3304-4 , pp. 115 ( online [accessed March 16, 2013]).
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10. ↑ BOUEZ Rules Out Lahoud . In: Naharnet , August 14, 2004. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 16, 2013.  
11. ↑ Environmental Impact Assessment . In: Ministry of Energy & Water & Electricitè du Liban , April 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2013. 
12. ↑ Lebanese Political Feud Jolts Cabinet . In: Los Angeles Times , September 7, 2004. Retrieved March 16, 2013. 
13. ↑ Chibli Mallat: Lebanon's Cedar Revolution, An essay on non-violence and justice . Mallat, S. 122 ( online, PDF ). online, PDF ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ^ Druze leader Walid Jumblatt confirms his commitment to 14 March . In: Wikileaks , May 15, 2009. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 16, 2013.  
15. ↑ Four Lebanese ministers step down . In: BBC , September 7, 2004. Retrieved March 16, 2013. 
16. ↑ Are Knudsen: Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005 Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: CMI Working Paper . 2, 2005. Retrieved March 17, 2013. 
17. ^ Nada Raad: 4 ministers quit Lebanese Cabinet over amendment . In: The Daily Star , September 7, 2004. Retrieved March 16, 2013. 
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20. ^ Mordechai Nisan: Christian Decline and Models of Lebanon . In: ACPR . 83, 1999. Retrieved March 17, 12013.
21. ^ Robert G. Rabil: The Maronites and Syrian withdrawal: from “isolationists” to “traitors”? . In: Middle East Policy , September 1, 2001. Retrieved March 18, 2013. 
22. ↑ Kenneth Reich: No Peace in Lebanon Until Refugees Are Resettled, Foreign Minister Says . In: Los Angeles Times , October 5, 1993. Retrieved July 18, 2013. 
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24. ^ Gebran, “son-in-law of the world” . In: Now Lebanon , March 9, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2013. 
25. ^ Family man. (No longer available online.) Website of Élias Hraoui, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on March 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.