Kuwait Emir Urges to Salam Need to End Presidential Deadlock

by Naharnet Newsdesk 29 March 2015, 09:49

The Emir of Kuwait has stressed the need for Lebanon to end the vacuum in the presidency, reported the daily al-Mustaqbal on Sunday.

Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah had urged Prime Minister Tammam Salam to end the presidential impasse and elect a new president, sources accompanying the premier to the Arab League summit at Egypt's Sharm al-Sheikh told the daily.

“We need a president for Lebanon,” the emir was quoted as saying.

Salam and the accompanying delegation had arrived in Egypt on Saturday.

The prime minister had met with a number of Arab officials on the margins of the summit, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Iraqi President Fuad Maasoum, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.

Lebanon has been without a president since May when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.

Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise presidential candidate have thwarted the polls.

M.T.