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1. **Official name of Country** – Lebanon 2. **Climat**e – Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot, dry summers; mountains experience heavy winter snow 3. **Map** - a. 33 50 N, 35 50 E b. Coast Lines, narrow coastal plain, El Beqaa (Bekaa Valley), mountains c. see map
 * __Country Profile__**:
 * 1) //__**Physical Geography**__//


 * __//B//.__** //**__Political Geography__**//

4. **Type of Government** - Republic; **Government Officials** - //Cheif of State:// President Michel Sulayman (as of May 2008) //Head of Government:// PrimeMinister Fuad Siniora (since June 2005) //Deputy Prime Minister:// Elias Murr (since April 2005) 5. **Capital -** Beirut 6. 7. **Size of Armed Forces** - Lebanese Armed Forces, includes Army and Air Force; males 1,106,879 and females 1,122595
 * Political Parties**: Democratic Gathering Bloc, Democratic Renewal Movement, Democratic Left, Future Movement Bloc, Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces

//C. **__Cultural Geography__**//:

8. **Official Language** - Arabic **Other Languages** - French, English, Armenian **Ethnic Composition** - Arab 95%, Armanian 4%, and other 1% 9. **Population** - 3,971,941 **Population Growth Rate** - 1.154% 10. **Major Cities** - Beirut 11. **Infant Mortality** - total: 22.59 deaths/1,000 live births **Life Expectancy** - total population: 73.41 years 12. **teachers and doctors per population**:
 * Major Religions**: Muslim 59.7%

13. **GDP** - per capita: $11,100 real growth rate: 4.4% 14. **% of land that is arable for argriculture** - 5.1% 15. **Natural Resource** - inorganic chemicals 16. **major agricultural and industrial products** - tobacco, textile fabrics, meat and live animals 17. **Major Exports and Imports** - exports: authentic jewelery, inorganic chemicals, miscellanous consuer good, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, elecectric power machinery Imports: petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco 18. **Currency** - 19. **Balance of trade** - 34.48 billion 20. **Historical Events** - Second Isreale invasion in 1980, bringing in peacekeepers. Isreal withdraws from Lebanon in 1985. "A Security Council resolution asks Syria to remove the troops it has stationed in Lebanon for the past 28 years. Syria responded by moving about 3,000 troops from the vicinity of Beirut to eastern Lebanon, a gesture that was viewed by many as merely cosmetic", in 2004. Former Prime Minister Rafik Harir was assasinated in 2005.
 * //__D. Economic Geography:__//**


 * //__HIV/AIDS POLICY PAPER__//**:

Aids is a set of symptoms and infections that result from the damage to the human immune systems, which is HIV. HIV/AIDS had infected more than 60 millions poeple, and is killing hundreds of thousands of people. HIV/AIDS was first discovered by the U.S's Cebter for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981. Africa has more people infected with HIV/AIDS than any other country in the world. Many families in Africa are dying because of this horrible disease, leaving children orpahned, babies unattended for, and broken families. Many times parents can pass this disease to their children without them knowing they have the disease. Many health organizations are trying to inform as many people as they can about this disease in hopes that is can help stop this disease from spreading even more.
 * //__Background:__//**

Africa has the greatest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the whole world. One step that the UN is taking in this issue is that they passed the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), since women are a main target of HIV/AIDS in Africa. By passing that, they were allowing women to have better treatment toward the disease that had intoxicated their bodies. Also, they have had many meetings in which they discussed the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, to decide and see what they will do in order to help them to the best of their ability. **//__Country Policy/Possible Soultions__//**: Lebanon is doing everything they can to help end the spread of this disease. There is not a great number of HIV/AIDS cases in my country; there is about 2,800 people living with HIV/AIDS and fewer than 200 people have died from it. Efforts to contain the disease by the National AIDS Program (NAP) are ongoing in my country, to do everything they can to help cease the spread of this disease. Some solutions my counrty has is to help inform countries about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and to be checked for the disease before you have children, in case of conveying to disease to the child.
 * //__UN Involvement__//**:


 * __COTE D'IVORE CONFLICT POLICY PAPER__**:

The Cote D' Ivore Conflict are the problems that smallest city in Africa is having; consisting of the country without water, and electricity due to a civil unrest. Many people in this country are suffering severe diseases, starvation, and mal-nutrition. They are being forced to drink unsafe water due to dehydration, and that is causing dyherria, and cholera. The threat of attack, is keeping peackeepers out, meaning that many vulnerablt children cannot be reached.
 * //__Background__//**:

The UN has taken many measures to help end this conflict befor eit gets any worse. UN peacekeepers have been in the region but due to the danger of violence they have been removed. They have held numerous meetings to dicuss the actions that need to be taken but no final conclusion has been made.
 * //__UN Invovement__//**:

Lebanon has assisted in aiding the sick, and has helped send care packages to spots where there is nothing healthy to eat. Possible solutions my country would allow would be to send in aid, such as more peacekeepers to help assist the sick and dying. ALso we would like to send care packages to this country, as well as clean water for them to drink.
 * //__Country Policy/Possible Solutions__//**: