Bukhari meets Aoun, says Taef has protected Lebanon

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari held talks Monday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace.

The Presidency said the talks tackled the Lebanese-Saudi relations and means to develop them in the various fields, as well as the kingdom’s support for Lebanon, especially at the social and humanitarian levels, in addition to the general situations and latest developments.

“Ambassador Bukhari reiterated the kingdom’s keenness on Lebanon’s unity, people and Arab depth, based on the national and National Pact principles that were stipulated by the Taef Accord, which represented a main pillar that protected Lebanon and secured its stability,” the Presidency added.

“He also stressed the importance of finalizing the constitutional junctures on time,” the Presidency said.

Bukhari had on Sunday posted a tweet that apparently came in response to media reports about an upcoming meeting at the Swiss embassy in Beirut and a Lebanese dialogue conference in Geneva.

“The National Reconciliation Accord (Taef Accord) is a binding contract for laying the foundations of the pluralistic Lebanese entity, and the alternative to it will not be another accord but a dismantling of the bonds of coexistence and the demise of the unified country, which will be replaced by entities that do not resemble Lebanon the message,” Bukhari said in his tweet.