Khatchig Babikian

Khatchig Babikian (1924 - 1999) is a Politician Lebanon board of origin Arménie.

Born with Larnaca, in the island of Cyprus, it makes its studies in France, with the Lebanon and in Italy. Perfect polyglote, it speaks Arabic, Italian, French, the Armenian, Turkish, English and Latin. He is imprisoned in 1940 in a concentration camp in Italy, whereas he finished his baccalaureat, before being slackening and regaining the Lebanon, where he obtains his diploma of right of the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut. He becomes one of the most brilliant lawyers and most eloquent of his generation and one of the leaders of the Armenian community and the party Dashnak ( Tachnag ) with the Lebanon.

Khatchig Babikian is elected appointed Armenian orthodoxe of Beirut in 1957 and remains member of the Parliament in an uninterrupted way until the date of its death in 1999. It is replaced by André Tabourian. He is minister of state with the Administrative reform (1960 - 1961, government Saëb Salam), of Health (1969, government Rachid Karamé), of Tourism (1969 - 1970, gouverement Rachid Karamé), of Information (1972 - 1973, government Saëb Salam), of the Plan and the Foreign affairs (1973, government Amine Hafez) and of Justice (1980 - 1982, government Chafic Wazzan and 1990 - 1992, government Omar Karamé). He played a big role as vice-president of the International association of the French-speaking members of Parliament and with the president Charles Hélou, he knew to make benefit the Lebanon from the moral considerable advantages and materials which it represented for the Lebanon. Babikian was also one of the founders of Lebanese Association for Management and its president for many years.

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