Baabda Sources: Aoun, Miqati Agree on Need to Resolve KSA Row

President Michel Aoun has agreed with Prime Minister Najib Miqati on “the need to contain the repercussions of the Gulf’s crisis with Lebanon,” Presidency sources said.

“They agreed on the need to take initiative to rectify the relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a number of Arab Gulf countries,” the sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Friday.

“This initiative is based on two key points: the first is based on the information minister himself taking initiative to resign without wasting further time, to prevent certain parties and forces from aggravating the tensions between Lebanon and the Gulf Cooperation Council member states,” the sources added.

The second point stressed the need for Cabinet to convene without any delay “after the developments surpassed the issue of the stance on investigative judge Tarek Bitar, and after it has been proved that there is no solution for any objection against his investigations or performance except through the judiciary itself,” the sources went on to say.