Farès Boueiz

On 15 January 1955, Boueiz was born into a Maronite family in Zouk Mikael. In 1977 he obtained a law degree from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, and in 1978 he specialized in corporate and international law at Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France.{{Cite news|title=رئاسيات 2014 - فارس بويز 'غير المطواع' الجامع بين المبدئية والواقعية استقال مرتين / صداقات إقليمية ودولية لم تخلُ من فتور ومواقف أتعبته في الإنتخابات|url=https://www.annahar.com/arabic/article/122018-رئاسيات-2014--فارس-بويز-غير-المطواع-الجاجامع-بين-المبدئية-والواقعية-استقال-مرتين|access-date=11 April 2021|newspaper=An Nahar|language=ar

|date=December 2018}}

Boueiz is a lawyer by profession.{{cite news|author=Hassan M. Fattah|date=6 September 2005|title=Lebanon's President Facing Pressure to Resign|newspaper=The New York Times|url=http://tech.mit.edu/V125/PDF/N36.pdf|access-date=16 March 2013|archive-date=11 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511223803/http://tech.mit.edu/V125/PDF/N36.pdf|url-status=dead}} In 1989 and 1990, he was appointed as the personal representative of Elias Hrawi, President of Lebanon, to France, Syria and the Vatican.

From 1990 to 1992, he served as foreign minister from when he left office for a few months following the general elections in 1992{{cite news|author=Ihsan A. Hijazi|title=2 More Lebanese Ministers Quit to Protest Election|access-date=19 March 2013

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/26/world/2-more-lebanese-ministers-quit-to-protest-election.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 August 1992}} and was temporarily replaced by Nasri Maalouf in the post. It was Boueiz who participated in a first official meeting with the PLO's Farouk Qaddumi, head of the group's political department, in mid-May 1991 after a long period.{{cite book

|author=Simon Haddad|title=The Palestinian Impasse in Lebanon: The Politics of Refugee Integration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dw9EYmoydFEC&pg=PA35|year=2003|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-903900-46-8|page=35|location=Brighton; Portland, OR}}

Boueiz continued to serve as foreign minister from 1992 to 1998 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.{{cite book|author=Nicholas Blanford|location=London|title=Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBfDB18OHY0C&pg=PA49|year=2006|page=49

|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-84511-202-8}} Hariri and he had a tensed relationship due to Hariri's interventions to foreign policy. When Boueiz was in office, his father-in-law, Elias Hrawi, was the President of Lebanon.{{cite book|author=Rola el Husseini|title=Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgl6DgAVzWMC&pg=PA115|year=2012|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-3304-4|page=115|location=Syracuse, NY}} In 1998 Salim Hoss succeeded Boueiz as foreign minister.

In 2003, Boueiz was appointed environment minister to the cabinet led by Rafic Hariri, replacing Michel Musa in the post.{{cite news|title=Environmental Impact Assessment|url=http://www.ekf.dk/da/om-ekf/CSR-i-EKF/Documents/K%20-EIA-Jiyeh-v7-final%20Chapter%201-4.pdf|access-date=16 March 2013|work=Ministry of Energy & Water & Electricitè du Liban|date=April 2011}} Boueiz was an independent member of the cabinet.{{cite news|title=Lebanese Political Feud Jolts Cabinet|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-sep-07-fg-lebanon7-story.html|access-date=16 March 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=7 September 2004|agency=AP|location=Beirut}} On 7 September 2004, he resigned from office protesting the constitutional amendment to extend the term of Émile Lahoud as president.{{cite book|author=Chibli Mallat|title=Lebanon's Cedar Revolution An essay on non-violence and justice|publisher=Mallat|page=122|author-link=Chibli Mallat

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202044246/http://mallat.com/books/Appendix1%20and%202.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 February 2012|url=http://mallat.com/books/Appendix1%20and%202.pdf}} Three more ministers also resigned on the same day, namely Marwan Hamadeh, Ghazi Aridi and Abdullah Farhat.{{cite news|title=Four Lebanese ministers step down|access-date=16 March 2013|work=BBC

|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3631486.stm|date=7 September 2004}} These four ministers were also among the members of the parliament who voted against the extension of Lahoud's term.{{cite journal|author=Are Knudsen|year=2005|title=Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005|journal=CMI Working Paper|volume=2|url=http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2435894|hdl=11250/2435894}}

The state minister Michel Musa replaced Boueiz as acting environment minister.{{cite news|title=4 ministers quit Lebanese Cabinet over amendment|url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/Sep/07/4-ministers-quit-Lebanese-Cabinet-over-amendment.ashx#axzz2NbofFgrl|access-date=16 March 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=7 September 2004|author=Nada Raad|author2=Nafez Kawas|location=Bairut}} Boueiz was among the potential candidates for the presidency after Émile Lahoud's first term in 2004.{{cite news|title=Bouez Rules out Lahoud|url=http://old.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/972D3FCFBF4EA4A8C2256EEE002C31B7?OpenDocument&PRINT|archive-date=1 February 2014|work=Naharnet|date=14 August 2004|url-status=dead|access-date=16 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201223839/http://old.naharnet.com/domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Story/972D3FCFBF4EA4A8C2256EEE002C31B7?OpenDocument&PRINT}}

Boueiz served as a member of the Lebanese Parliament, representing Kesrouan until 2005.{{cite news|author=Joseph A. Kechichian|title=The wait for a leader|access-date=15 July 2012|work=Ya Libnan|date=23 September 2007|url-status=dead

|url=http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/09/lebanon_the_wai_1.php|archive-date=20 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520061634/http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/09/lebanon_the_wai_1.php}} He was again one of the contenders for the presidency of Lebanon after Lahoud in 2007.{{cite web|author=David Schenker|title=Presidential Elections in Lebanon: Consensus or Conflagration?|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/presidential-elections-in-lebanon-consensus-or-conflagration|publisher=The Washington Institute|access-date=9 April 2013|format=Policy Paper|date=1 November 2007}}

In the general elections in 2009, Boueiz was not on the list of the March 14 alliance.{{cite news

|author=Robert G. Rabil|title=Lebanon at the crossroads|work=Lebanonwire|url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/0906MLN/09060615OD.asp|access-date=24 March 2013|date=6 June 2009}}

During his second term as foreign minister, Boueiz overtly cooperated with the Syrian authorities.{{cite journal|author=Mordechai Nisan|author-link=Mordechai Nisan|title=Christian Decline and Models of Lebanon|journal=ACPR|url=http://www.acpr.org.il/pp/pp083-nisane.pdf

|year=1999|volume=83}} However, in 2001, he objected the accusations of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass regarding Patriarch Sfeir.{{cite news|author=Robert G. Rabil|title=The Maronites and Syrian withdrawal: from "isolationists" to "traitors"?|work=Middle East Policy|date=1 September 2001|access-date=18 March 2013

|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Maronites+and+Syrian+withdrawal%3a+from+%22isolationists%22+to...-a080013150}} On the other hand, Boueiz was skeptical about the peace accord signed by Israel and the PLO in 1993, and argued that Palestinian refugees should not settle in Lebanon due to sensitive demographic balance between native Christians and Muslims in the country.{{cite news|author=Kenneth Reich|title=No Peace in Lebanon Until Refugees Are Resettled, Foreign Minister Says|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-05-me-42403-story.html|access-date=18 July 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=5 October 1993|location=Anaheim}} During talks with Egyptian diplomats in Rome in early April 1998, Boueiz argued that the Nazis' approach against Jewish people was based on political reasons stating "they have behaved arrogantly like the chosen people of God."{{cite web|title=ADL urges Lebanese President to publicly condemn anti-semitic comments made by Lebanese foreign minister|url=http://archive.adl.org/PresRele/islme_62/3143-62.asp|work=Anti-Defamation League|access-date=18 July 2013|location=New York|format=Press Release|date=22 April 1998|archive-date=19 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219094753/http://archive.adl.org/presrele/islme_62/3143-62.html}}

Boueiz married Zalfa Hrawi in 1985{{cite web|title=Family man|url=http://www.eliashrawi.com/gallery.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201170221/http://www.eliashrawi.com/gallery.html|archive-date=1 February 2014|access-date=16 March 2013

|publisher=Elias Hrawi website}} and is the son-in-law of Elias Hrawi.{{cite news|date=9 March 2012|title=Gebran, "son-in-law of the world"|work=Now Lebanon|url=https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/gebran_son-in-law_of_the_world|access-date=19 March 2013|archive-date=18 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218235904/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/gebran_son-in-law_of_the_world|url-status=dead}}

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