Report: Presidential solution not ripe yet despite foreign efforts
The current foreign drive will certainly give an impetus to Lebanon’s presidential file, but “solutions have not ripened yet,” sources informed on the contacts said.
“There is no Iranian-Saudi decision to directly interfere” in the file, the sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Tuesday.
The same sources said the “main discussions” in the Lebanese file did not take place at the Elysee summit between French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but rather “in Tehran, between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan.”
Bin Farhan later “visited Paris and met with the French duo tasked with the Lebanese file, Bernard Émié and Patrick Durel, and this meeting was likely linked to what (French presidential envoy Jean-Yves) Le Drian will carry to Beirut,” the sources added.
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