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Neutrality is a policy only when it is argued for and defended. Otherwise it is the absence of a decision, and others will make it for you.
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Ziad S. Mikati
More than twenty years in public policy. Since 2011, international affairs advisor to H.E. Najib Mikati, including during his terms as Prime Minister of Lebanon.
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