Report: Grillo in contact with 'all parties' ahead of Le Drian's upcoming visit
French Ambassador Anne Grillo is holding talks with all political forces in Lebanon and will prepare next week for French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian's visit to the crisis-hit country, a local media report said.
Ad-Diyar newspaper also claimed Wednesday that the relation between France and Hezbollah has not been severed.
"the rumors about a stalemate in talks between France and Hezbollah are not accurate," a source told the daily.
Le Drian had arrived last month in Beirut to end the presidential impasse. He met with officials, party heads and other politicians.
He is set to return to Beirut this month, and is reportedly preparing for a visit to Riyadh.
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France is no friend of Lebanon since Jacques Chirac departure. Every president since that time has been hostile to us as they favoured ties with Iran and its interests over ours. What has Macron done for the Beirut Port blast? Nothing ! It was all blabla yet he could have put our criminal ruling class on embargo and could have taken them to the ICC.
