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Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in a consistory on 24 November 2012.
Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai called on Sunday for an UN-sponsored international conference on Lebanon to protect the 1989 Taef Agreement that helped end the civil war and divided power among rival factions.
“The conference’s objective would be to revive Lebanon through immunizing the Document of National Accord issued by the Taef Conference in 1989, and to implement its text and spirit and correct the obvious flaws in the constitution, that was amended according to it in 1990,” the Cardinal said during his Sunday mass ceremony.
He said an international conference for Lebanon would also aim to enable the Lebanese State to regain its life, vitality, positive neutrality, impartiality, and its role as a stabilizing factor in the region.
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This August 5, 2020 file photo, is the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. 211 killed , 6500 Injured after 2,750 Tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded . They were stored there for nearly 7 years, reportedly for use by the Syrian regime in its barrel bombs. The shipment was reportedly confiscated by Badri Daher a close supporter of President Michel Aoun and his son-in-law Gebran Bassil . The shipment arrived at a time when Syria was surrendering its chemical weapons to a UN backed organization for destruction . Aoun knew about the Ammonium Nitrate 2 weeks before the explosion but did nothing about it . He , along with his Hezbollah allies refused an international investigation but promised a local investigation that will bring the culprits to justice in less than a week . Judge Fadi Sawan was appointed several months later to investigate the explosion . He charged caretaker PM Hassan Diab , former finance minister Ali
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A number of Lebanese lawmakers are petitioning the UN for the formation of an international fact-finding commission to look into the massive explosion that wreaked havoc across the capital Beirut last August.
MPs from the Lebanese Forces, one of the country’s major parties, have submitted a petition to the UN Secretary General to help uncover the truth, LF MP George Oqeis said on Monday. The petition was submitted to the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Mr Oqeis said.
“Six months have passed since the explosion at Beirut port. We awaited the [progress] of the investigation but reaped nothing but disappointment,” Mr Oqeiss said. “All we want is the truth.”