Beirut, Oct 22, SPA -- Lebanese premier-designate Omar Karami got down to forming a government Friday. The Cabinet had not been preselected, Karami told Friday'sAs-Safir newspaper. The consultations to choose ministershave "only just begun." "I know the enormity of the external pressures againstLebanon and Syria, and I know the sensitive internationalsituation and the crises the people are suffering from,"Karami said after the president asked him to form agovernment on Thursday night. "But I am not overwhelmed orcowered by them."--SP1433 Local Time 1133 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/212584