Report: US-Saudi efforts to convince Berri to endorse Aoun
Paris is counting on U.S.-Saudi efforts to convince Speaker Nabih Berri to endorse Joseph Aoun’s presidential nomination, especially after U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, An-Nahar newspaper reported on Tuesday.
“All the countries of the five-nation group for Lebanon agree to the army chief’s presidential nomination and Qatar has told the French at the highest levels that it supports Aoun,” a French source told the daily.
The source added that he does not rule out that French President Emmanuel Macron might call Berri after the parliament speaker meets with French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian.
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