PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version: nian.htm
COMMANDER IN CHIEF GENERAL MICHEL SULEIMAN CALLS
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I
The Commander in Chief of the Lebanese Army, General Michel Suleiman, called
His Holiness Aram I on November 30. The General told the Armenian Pontiff he
wanted to pay a visit to Antelias soon in order to brief him on the security
situation in Lebanon and the important role of the army in this respect.
However, given that his recent visits had been met with politically driven
interpretations in light of the present electoral politics in Lebanon, the
General informed the Catholicos he had decided to cancel all public visits.
General Suleiman presented his apologies for not being able to visit the
Pontiff in Antelias at this stage, but assured him Lebanon was internally
secure thanks to the direct surveillance of the Lebanese Army.
The Catholicos expressed his deep appreciation of and full support for the
unity of the Lebanese Army, its commitment and courage and considered it to
be the chain of Lebanon’s unity and the guarantor of its strength.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.