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Lebanese FM may not attend Arab League meeting over rift with Saudi Arabia

BEIRUT - Lebanon’s foreign minister may not attend an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Sunday and a final decision will be taken in the morning, a senior Lebanese official told Reuters on Saturday.

 

The official said Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil wanted to avoid an anticipated confrontation at the meeting with Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies over the regional role of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi‘ite group Hezbollah.

 

The emergency Arab foreign ministers meeting is being convened at the request of Saudi Arabia with support from the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait “to discuss means of confronting Iranian intervention in the internal affairs of Arab states,” the Egyptian state news agency MENA said.

 

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.19.17, 07:48