LEBANON’S ARMENIANS NOT AFFECTED BY ISRAELI FIRING
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 7, 2006
YEREVAN, August 7. /ARKA/. Lebanon’s Armenians have not been affected
by the Israeli firing, Lebanese Ambassador to Armenia Gabriel Zheara
told journalists in Yerevan.
"I state with all the responsibility that none of Armenians residing
in Lebanon became a victim of the firing at Lebanese territories,"
According to Zheara, the Armenian community has not experienced
neither physical, nor material losses during bombardments at Lebanon.
"Probably, this is accounted for by the Lord’s love towards Armenians,"
Zheara said and expressed his joy regarding this.
The Armenian community in Lebanon appeared at the end of the 19th
century. After mass persecutions and the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman
Turkey in 1915, the Armenian community in Lebanon became one of the
most numerous ones in the world. It currently consists of 120,000
people. Armenian school function in the country and three daily
newspapers are published. R.O. -0–