Berri visits Aoun to discuss security appointments

President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri held a meeting Friday at the Baabda Palace, amid reports that they would discuss the file of security appointments.

A Presidency statement said Aoun briefed Berri on his talks in Riyadh with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and also on the outcome of the extraordinary Arab summit in Cairo. They also discussed "the general situations and the situation in the South."

Al-Akhbar newspaper had reported that Berri would visit Baabda in a bid to reach “consensus over a number of appointments, especially in General Security and State Security.”

An agreement was meanwhile reached to name Major General Rudolph Haykal as army commander, while the rest of the security appointments will be completed next week, a governmental source told al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday.