Lebanon' current premier says five-time former Prime Minister Salim Hoss has died at age 94. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Hoss died Sunday. He described Hoss, who was also a former government minister and member of parliament, as the “conscience of Lebanon” in a statement.
FILE - Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Sharaa, left, shakes hands with former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss in Damascus on May 17, 2007. FILE - Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss casts his ballot for parliament elections in downtown Beirut on Sept. 3, 2000. FILE - Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Sharaa, left, shakes hands with former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss in Damascus on May 17, 2007.
Mikati was referring to fears that Lebanon could be pulled into a full-on war with Israel. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began attacking Israel a day afterHoss “was a prominent economist and a role model for his expertise, ethics and knowledge,” Mikati said. “He placed the country’s supreme interest and the interest of citizens above all considerations.”
Hoss was often described as a technocrat and widely respected as a rare statesman in a country marked by political and sectarian divisions.U.S. envoy visits Lebanon and warns that regional tensions could easily slip ‘out of control’He served as prime minister for four terms during the country’s 15-year civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990. His final term in office was from 1998 to 2000.
At one point, he presided over one of two dueling governments. After the term of President Amin Gemayel ended in 1988 with no successor elected, Lebanon became ruled by two governments, one headed by Michel Naim Aoun in Christian east Beirut and another by Hoss in Muslim west Beirut. By convention the prime minister of Lebanon is always a Sunni Muslim, the president a Maronite Christian and the speaker of Parliament a Shiite Muslim.
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