Jumblat Meets Mohammed bin Salman in KSA
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has held talks with Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom, media reports said.
The meeting tackled the current situations in Lebanon and the region according to the reports.
Jumblat had traveled Saturday to Saudi Arabia accompanied by his son MP Taymour Jumblat and MP Wael Abu Faour.
The PSP leader had recently encouraged the young crown prince to engage in dialogue with Riyadh's regional arch-rival Iran to avert a possible war.
Jumblat also slammed the Saudi-led war in Yemen as “absurd” and warned that “no one can win in Yemen,” describing the war-torn country as “the Afghanistan of the Arab world.”
“In my opinion, every war is absurd and dialogue is much better than any war that consumes money and lives,” Jumblat added.
The PSP leader also criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia and said that he is “against the privatization” of the Aramco oil firm.
“It belongs to the Saudi people and Arabs,” Jumblat said.
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