met today and issued a statement calling on " the Armenian community to participate in the popular rally in Martyrs Square, on Thursday, February 14, 2008, at ten o'clock, to say loudly and clearly that they will not give up the project of building the state of Lebanon. "

The rally was called for by the March 14 ruling majority alliance to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri who was assassinated on February 14, 2005 .

Syria was accused of being behind his assassination but Syria has denied .
The UN is setting up an International tribunal in Holland to try the killers of Hariri and related crimes , but Syria worried about the outcome has been fighting the tribunal along with its Lebanese allies