President
Aoun emphasized the need not to respond to any pressures.
President
Aoun: “Let the members of the Council be a unified and solidarity working group”.
Five new
Supreme Judicial Council members took their oath before President General
Michel Aoun, today at Baabda Palace.
Justice
Minister, Judge Henry Khoury, Presidency Director General, Dr. Antoine Choucair
and President of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Suhail Abboud, also
attended.
Judges, Afif Hakim,
Habib Mezher, Danny Shebli, Mireille Haddad and Elias Richa successively took
the following oath:
“I swear by God
that I will carry out my duties in the Supreme Judicial Council with honesty
and sincerity, and that I will keep the secret of deliberations, and that in
all my works I strive for the good conduct of the judiciary, its dignity and
its independence”.
After the oath,
the President met the new members of the Council, in the Presence of Minister
Khoury and Judge Abboud, and wished them success in their new responsibilities.
President Aoun stressed the role of the Supreme Judicial Council in the work of
the independent judiciary, and the need not to respond to any pressure which
they are subject to. President Aoun also emphasized the necessity that Council
members be a unified and solidarity working group.
For his part,
the Justice Minister addressed the importance of regular work in the Supreme
Judicial Council and the principle of separation of authorities. On the other
hand, Judge Abboud thanked the President for the attention he attaches to the
judicial body, praising the competence and experience of the new members. Judge
Abboud also stressed the importance of independence of the judiciary, “Which is
able to address any defect”.