Yaqub Sarraf

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Sarraf during the 54th MSC 2018

Yaʿqub Riyad as-Sarraf (* 1961 in Miniara , Akkar ) ( Arabic يعقوب رياض الصراف, DMG Yaʿqūb Riyāḍ al-Ṣarrāf ), also Yaqub Sarraf ( Arabic يعقوب صراف) is a Lebanese politician.

Life

Sarraf is a Greek Orthodox Christian and holds degrees in civil engineering and architecture from the American University of Beirut . He is married and has two children. Sarraf worked for companies in Greece, France and Lebanon before becoming governor of Beirut in 1999 . Since 2003 he has been the governor of Mount Lebanon .

He was considered close to President Émile Lahoud and pro-Syrian and was involved in some conflicts with the Beirut City Council and with Rafiq al-Hariri . Lahoud appointed him environment minister in the Lebanese government formed by Prime Minister Fuad Siniora in July 2005 . After the assassination attempt on Defense Minister Elias Murr on July 12, 2005, he represented Murr's department until Murr recovered. Sarraf became known internationally for his condemnation of the oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean in 2006 , which was triggered by the Israeli bombing of a thermal power station in Jije during the Lebanon War .

Sarraf resigned on November 13, 2006 before the cabinet meeting at which the Siniora government approved the statutes of an international tribunal to investigate and convict those responsible for the attack on the vehicle convoy of former Prime Minister Hariri. After the withdrawal of all Shiite ministers on November 11, Sarraf became the sixth minister to resign after the failure of negotiations to form a government of national unity. Members of the anti-Syrian future movement saw it as an attempt to prevent the international tribunal.

Sarraf has been Minister of Defense in Saad Hariri's cabinet since December 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There is a threat of an environmental disaster in the Mediterranean. Tagesspiegel , July 29, 2006, accessed on August 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The Beirut government for the Hariri Court. (No longer available online.) Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 14, 2006, archived from the original on February 20, 2008 ; accessed on August 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Alex Rowell: Aoun, Hariri sweep half of new Lebanese cabinet. now.mmedia.me, December 19, 2016, accessed on August 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Sarraf, Yaqub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarraf, Yaʿqub Riyad as-; Sarraf, Yacoub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Miniara