Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan expressed confidence in Lebanon’s new leaders’ skill to hold out essential reforms, as he visited the nation for the primary time after greater than a decade.
“We are greatly confident in the ability of… the president and the prime minister to initiate reforms necessary to bolster Lebanon’s security, stability and unity,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan stated after assembly President Joseph Aoun in Beirut, through the first high-level Saudi go to in additional than a decade.
Saudi Arabia will proceed supporting Lebanon and is optimistic concerning the nation’s future following a devastating warfare between Israel and Hezbollah, the dominion’s international minister stated in Beirut.
He instructed reporters he harassed the significance of reforms in his assembly with Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun, within the first journey to Beirut by Riyadh’s prime diplomat in 15 years.
Bin Farhan, accompanied by a high-level delegation, was welcomed at Rafik Hariri airport by Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib and Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari.
From the airport, the highest Saudi diplomat proceeded on to the Baabda Presidential Palace in jap Beirut to satisfy with President Aoun to congratulate him on assuming his new place.
Bin Farhan is scheduled to satisfy on Thursday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam.
Source: www.dailysabah.com