Le Drian calls for 'consensual and effective' solution for Lebanon

The French President's Personal Envoy to Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has said that he “will work to facilitate a constructive and inclusive dialogue among the Lebanese in order to reach a solution that is at the same time consensual and effective to get out of the institutional vacuum.”

“In this first visit, I wanted to listen. That is why I met civil, religious and military authorities, as well as representatives of all political parties in Parliament,” Le Drian said in a statement issued in the wake of his visit this week to Lebanon.

"I will report on this mission to the President of the Republic as soon as I return to France. I will return to Beirut again very soon because time is not in Lebanon’s favor,” Le Drian added.