Al-Jubeir Denies Saudi-Iranian Agreement Reached on Lebanon
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir denied that a regional agreement had been reached over ending the deadlock in Lebanon, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Friday.
He told the daily that a deal between the kingdom and Iran has not been reached, contrary to what has been reported in the media.
Reports had said that Jubeir and his Iranian counterpart Mohammed Javad Zarif had made the agreement during a three-hour meeting held in Vienna.
Jubeir clarified to al-Joumhouria that that meeting lasted “only a few minutes.”
“How could we have reached a deal in such a limited amount of time?” he asked.
The two officials had met on the margins of Vienna talks that were addressing the Syrian conflict.
Recent efforts to end the presidential deadlock in Lebanon have been focusing on the election of Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh as president.
His name is being proposed as part of a greater settlement that would resolve the political impasse in the country.
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