Report: French FM to visit Qatar for talks on Lebanon's presidential file

France has no presidential candidate for Lebanon, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told her Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib Thursday in a meeting in Riyadh.

"All what France cares about is for a president to be elected," Colonna told Bou Habib.

The French minister had arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night, and will on Thursday visit Qatar to discuss with Qatari officials the Lebanese presidential file, media reports said.

On Wednesday French President Emmanuel Macron named his former foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as his personal envoy for Lebanon, in a new bid to end the country's political crisis.

Le Drian will be charged with helping to find a "consensual and efficient" solution to the crisis, said a presidential official.

The official said Le Drian had vast experience in "crisis management" and would be heading to Lebanon "very soon."