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General Aoun's Letter to Ban Ki-moon
The Siniora Government is not interested in any effort toward resolving the crisis in Lebanon through dialogue.
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon,
On the occasion of your visit to our country Lebanon, I would like to clarify a number of critical matters as we observed some misunderstandings in recent statements made by certain members of the international community.
For almost two years, our country has been suffering a governance crisis which primarily resulted from unfair 2005 parliamentary elections and was further augmented following a series of failures by the Siniora Government. The crisis significantly escalated subsequent to the resignation of all Shia Ministers leading to a sharp division between the opposition and the Siniora Government.
In accordance with Article 95 of the Lebanese Constitution and Paragraph J of its Preamble, all communities must be represented in order for the Government to be legitimate. The resignation of all Shia Ministers, and the failure to replace them, has rendered the Siniora Government constitutionally illegitimate and has violated the National Pact.
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon,
On the occasion of your visit to our country Lebanon, I would like to clarify a number of critical matters as we observed some misunderstandings in recent statements made by certain members of the international community.
For almost two years, our country has been suffering a governance crisis which primarily resulted from unfair 2005 parliamentary elections and was further augmented following a series of failures by the Siniora Government. The crisis significantly escalated subsequent to the resignation of all Shia Ministers leading to a sharp division between the opposition and the Siniora Government.
In accordance with Article 95 of the Lebanese Constitution and Paragraph J of its Preamble, all communities must be represented in order for the Government to be legitimate. The resignation of all Shia Ministers, and the failure to replace them, has rendered the Siniora Government constitutionally illegitimate and has violated the National Pact.
Comments on this journal
In conclusion, I assure Your Excellency Secretary-General, of our full readiness for constant communications and coordination with the United Nations to provide further clarifications and contribute to a permanent solution to the current crisis.
Respectfully yours,
Michel Aoun, Member of Parliament
Head of the Change and Reform Parliamentary Bloc
CC: Members of the Security Council
? The establishment and expansion in Lebanon of fundamentalist terrorist organizations with no preventive measures on the part of the Siniora Government;
? The arming and training of previous militias and new ones, all affiliated with the governing majority, under the sight of the Siniora Government;
? The rampant corruption by the same governing elements who caused the accumulation of at least USD 40 Billion debt (or around 200% of GDP); and
? The real threat of settling the Palestinians in Lebanon which we, and the overwhelming majority of the Lebanese, oppose. There is a national consensus in Lebanon against such settlement as stipulated in the Preamble of the Lebanese Constitution.
Despite the illegitimacy of, and the lack of confidence by the majority of the Lebanese people in, the Siniora Government and its incapability to rule the country, it has been receiving unlimited and irrational support from the international community. Given such empowerment, the current Siniora Government is not interested in any effort toward resolving the crisis in Lebanon through dialogue. The international community appears to be taking side in an internal dispute related to democratic rules and the Lebanese Constitution, and runs the risk of shouldering a big responsibility in case the country reaches a governance vacuum or internal conflict at the end of current President term.
As result of the July 2006 war and its aftermath, the failure of the Government to implement its program and any of the provisions in its Declaration as well as the breakup of electoral alliances which led in mid-2005 to the current Government, the Lebanese people lost their trust in the Siniora Government.