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He lost control and sobbed for a few seconds during his address to Arab League diplomats in Beirut during the July 2006 war as he described the fate of civilians in South Lebanon, then rapidly regained his composure after a standing ovation. This is Fuad el Siniora, the prime minister of Lebanon and a man who took the responsibility of his country in a very critical time, a time of war and internal conflicts.
Born into a Sunni Muslim family in Sidon in 1943, Siniora was a friend of the late prime minister Rafik Hariri for more than 45 years. Siniora graduated from the business school of the American University of Beirut. After working for Citibank and teaching at his alma mater in Beirut in the 1970s, he worked for the Central Bank's audit committee before being employed by Hariri in 1982 in his rapidly growing business empire, where Siniora held various positions. He was minister of finance for most of the post-civil-war period in Lebanon, from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.
Siniora has strong ties with international finance. Strongly pro-business, he is considered a partisan of free trade. He was a close adviser to Rafik Hariri and he is very close to his son Saad Hariri. Siniora was the main designer of the Paris II conference in November 2002 , that allowed Lebanon to get US$ 2.6 billion.
On July 27, 2006, Siniora presented the seven-point Siniora Plan at a 15-nation conference in Rome as a solution to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
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