Fouad Siniora
46th Prime Minister of Lebanon
Incumbent
Assumed office  July 19, 2005
Deputy	Elias Murr
Preceded by	Najib Mikati
Succeeded by	Incumbent
Born	1943 Sidon, Lebanon
Political party	Current for the Future
Spouse	Huda, three children: Wael, May and Zina
Religion	Sunni Islam

Fouad Siniora (alternative spellings: Fouad Sanyoura, Fuad Siniora, Fouad Saniora, Fouad Seniora) (Arabic: فؤاد السنيورة‎, Fu'ād As-Sanyūrah) is the Prime Minister of Lebanon, a position he assumed on 19 July 2005, succeeding Najib Mikati. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1500x2447, 626 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Fouad Siniora Position of Lebanon in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict Siniora Plan Metadata This file contains additional... This page lists prime ministers of Lebanon. ... The incumbent, in politics, is the current holder of a political office. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elias Murr is the outgoing Lebanese Defense Minister. ... Najib Mikati Najib Mikati (born November 24, 1955) is a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... , Sidon or Saida, (Arabic صيدا á¹¢aydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. ... Image:Saad Hariri Current for the Future ([ar:تيار المستقبل], Tayyar Al Mustaqbal) is a Sunni Muslim political movement in Lebanon, led by Sunni Muslim Saad Hariri, younger son of the assassinated former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri. ... Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... This page lists prime ministers of Lebanon. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Najib Mikati Najib Mikati (born November 24, 1955) is a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. ...

Early career

Born into a Sunni Muslim family in Sidon in 1943, Siniora was a friend of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri for more than 45 years. A business graduate of the American University of Beirut, Siniora was Minister of Finance for most of the post-war period in Lebanon. After working for Citibank and teaching at his alma mater in Beirut in the 1970s, Siniora worked for the Central Bank's audit committee before being employed by Hariri in 1982 in his rapidly growing business empire. He held various positions in Hariri's business enterprises. Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... , Sidon or Saida, (Arabic صيدا á¹¢aydā) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Rafik Baha ad-Din Hariri — (November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005), (Arabic: ‎) a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on 20 October 2004. ... The American University of Beirut (AUB; Arabic: ‎) is a private, independent, non-sectarian university in Beirut, Lebanon. ... Citibank is a major international bank, founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York. ... For other uses, see Beirut (disambiguation). ... Template:A year The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Political career

Fouad Siniora has strong ties with international finance. Strongly pro-business, he is considered a partisan of free trade. He was a close adviser to late Rafik Hariri and he is very close to his son Saad Hariri. He served as finance minister from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004. Siniora was the main designer of the Paris II conference in November 2002 which allowed Lebanon to get US$2.6 billion. He was accused of corruption and mismanagement after Hariri's ousting in 1998, in what was mainly viewed as a conflict between Hariri and President Émile Lahoud. Siniora was cleared of all charges in 2003 by the parliament. In 2002, he abolished most of Lebanon's duty taxes and introduced a Value Added Tax. It was under his rule that Lebanon's public debt exploded, although his responsibility for that is disputed. Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. ... Rafik Baha ad-Din Hariri — (November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005), (Arabic: ‎) a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on 20 October 2004. ... Saadeddine Rafiq al Hariri (Arabic: ‎), (born April 18th 1970 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) is the majority leader in the Lebanese Parliament and the head of the Current for the Future, a political movement associated with his late father. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1], the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... This page lists presidents of Lebanon. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Value added tax (VAT) is tax on exchanges. ...

After the victory of the anti-Syrian opposition in parliamentary elections held in May and June 2005, Fouad Siniora was asked by President Lahoud on 30 June to form a government. He resigned from the chairmanship of Group Méditerranée (a banking holding controlled by the Hariri family). After laborious negotiations with the President and the different political forces, Siniora formed a government on July 19, 2005. It is the first government formed after the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon and the first government to include members of Hezbollah. With regards to Hezbollah, the Siniora cabinet´s official stance is that "The government considers the resistance a natural and honest expression of the Lebanese people’s national rights to liberate their land and defend their honour against Israeli aggression and threats". On the other hand, the Siniora cabinet has also been working alongside the March 14 Alliance towards a peaceful disarmament of the Hezbollah military wing through an internal political process. Apart from General Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, all mainstream political currents are represented. Elections in Lebanon gives information on election and election results in Lebanon. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cedar Revolution has become the most commonly used name for the chain of demonstrations and popular civic action in Lebanon (mainly Beirut) triggered by the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005. ... For other uses, see Hezbollah (disambiguation). ... The March 14 Alliance is a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon, led by Saad Hariri, younger son of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Michel Naim Aoun (ميشال عون) (born 17 February 1935 in Beirut) is a Lebanese military commander and politician. ... FPM logo The Free Patriotic Movement FPM (Tayyar Al-Watani Al-Horr), also known as the Aounist Current (Tayyar Al-Aouni), is a Lebanese political party, led by General Michel Aoun, a former commander of the Lebanese army who served as Prime Minister of one of two governments that contended...

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In April, 2006, Siniora and leading officials paid a high profile visit to Washington, DC, and met with President George W. Bush and a number of cabinet members of the Bush Administration. His public pronouncements have been relatively mute with regard to Syria's alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

On 27 July 2006, Siniora presented the 7-point Siniora Plan at a 15-nation conference in Rome as a solution to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. He famously lost control and sobbed for a few seconds during his address to Arab League diplomats in Beirut during the July 2006 war as he described the fate of civilians in Southern Lebanon --then rapidly regained his composure after a standing ovation. [1] [2] July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... now. ... Combatants Hezbollah Amal LCP  Israel Commanders Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary General of Hezbollah) Imad Mughniyeh (Commander of Hezbollahs armed wing)[5] Dan Halutz (CoS) Moshe Kaplinsky[12] Udi Adam (Regional) Strength 600-1,000 active fighters 3,000-10,000 reservists[6] 30,000 ground troops (plus IAF & ISC)[13...

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Opposition to the Siniora Government

On November 13, 2006, Hezbollah-backed ministers resigned from Siniora's cabinet to protest the establishment of the international tribunal investigating the assassination of PM Rafiq Hariri in 2005, which the Siniora government, as well as the United States, have accused the Syrian intelligence service of involvement in, a charge denied by Syria.

With the resignation of these cabinet ministers, the opposition asserts that under Lebanon's constitution the Siniora government no longer legitimately holds power, as the constitution requires all Lebanese ethno-religious groups to be represented in the cabinet. They demand an increase in opposition representation in the cabinet, sufficient to hold veto power over decision making, as their requirement for returning. The government sees this as a Syrian-orchestrated move to block the establishment of the Hariri tribunal.

On December 1, 2006, the opposition, primarily the pro-Syrian Shiite parties of Amal and Hezbollah, and the Christian Free Patriotic Movement of Michael Aoun, launched a campaign of street demonstrations with the goal of bringing down the Siniora government, and the country remains in crisis. Recent negotiations between Saudi Arabia which supports Siniora, and Iran which supports the opposition, show promise of producing a power sharing compromise for the country, but Siniora, with strong support by the United States, remains opposed to giving the opposition a veto-wielding block in the cabinet. FPM logo The Free Patriotic Movement FPM (Tayyar Al-Watani Al-Horr), also known as the Aounist Current (Tayyar Al-Aouni), is a Lebanese political party, led by General Michel Aoun, a former commander of the Lebanese army who served as Prime Minister of one of two governments that contended...

See also

• Fouad Siniora's cabinet
• Position of Lebanon in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
• Siniora Plan

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External links

• BBC profile of Fouad Siniora