Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 29

18-July-2005

Political Comment (18 July 2005)

Lebanese prime minister designate Fuad Siniora has abandoned his attempt to put together a government including all the major political groups in the country. No-one knows who was behind the attempted assassination of Lebanons pro-Syrian defense minister,

A Technocratic Government For Lebanon

It now appears that instead of a government in which all the main political trends including for the first time...