Beirut comes in from the cold after Riyadh approves Aoun-Hariri axis


Issue 1027 - 01 Dec 2016 | 6 minute read

Saudi Arabia seems ready to restore its support for the Beirut government following the late October breakthrough that ended Lebanon’s two-and-a-half year presidential vacuum with the election of 81-year old veteran, retired General Michel Aoun. The deal is contingent on Saad Hariri’s nomination as prime minister, in an arrangement said to have involved discreet Saudi and Iranian contacts, which gives a second term as PM (after a spell in 2009-11) to the scion of Lebanon’s most powerful Sunni dynasty.

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