{"id":47120,"date":"2021-12-08T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47120"},"modified":"2021-12-08T06:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:26:41","slug":"kuwaiti-people-look-forward-to-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salmans-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47120","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaiti people look forward to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\nBEIRUT: On Tuesday, at the request of President Emmanuel Macron, French Ambassador to Lebanon Anne Griot briefed Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Macron\u2019s Gulf tour, especially his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which \u201cexpressed its commitment to helping Lebanon, pointing out the need to implement the commitments that have been undertaken,\u201d as stated by the media office of the Lebanese presidency.<\/p>\n

\nDuring the meeting, Griot stressed that \u201cSaudi Arabia and the Gulf countries are ready to undertake the required steps, and that for its part, Lebanon should undertake what is required from it and prove its credibility in its commitment to reforms, especially the structural reforms that require new work tools to confront the deep crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe meeting held last Saturday in Jeddah between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Macron saw the issuing of a statement concerning Lebanon, in which the pair stressed the \u201cneed (for) the Lebanese government to undertake comprehensive reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe two sides also stressed the \u201cneed to limit possession of arms to legitimate state institutions,\u201d and that \u201cLebanon should not serve as a base for terrorist acts that destabilize the security and stability of the region, or a base for drug trafficking,\u201d further stressing \u201cthe importance of strengthening the role of the Lebanese Army in maintaining the security and stability of Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe pair had made a joint phone call during the meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.<\/p>\n

\nDuring her talks with Aoun, Griot stressed the importance placed by the international community and France in the legislative, municipal, and presidential elections due next year.<\/p>\n

\nIn response to the Saudi-French statement, on behalf of Hezbollah, former minister Mohammed Fneish said on Tuesday that the group \u201cwill not \u2026 substitute the symbol of our dignity and freedom with bare essentials of living conditions.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe attempts to make us relinquish the resistance and its arms in return of resolving the economic crisis is something unacceptable to us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n

\nBACK<\/span>GROUND<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
\n
\n

\nThe meeting held last Saturday in Jeddah between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Macron saw the issuing of a statement concerning Lebanon, in which the pair stressed the \u2018need (for) the Lebanese government to undertake comprehensive reforms.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nCabinet sessions have been suspended since Oct. 12 over Hezbollah\u2019s stubbornness over the\u00a0 investigation into the Port of Beirut explosion. Judicial investigator Tariq Bitar is accused by the group of being biased against it, according to its chief, Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n

\nOn Tuesday, the Civil Court of Appeal of Beirut, headed by Judge Randa Harrouq, rejected a lawsuit submitted by former minister Youssef Fenianos against Bitar \u201cfor lack of qualitative jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHarrouq decided to \u201cfine the plaintiff an amount of 800,000 Lebanese pounds ($530) and inform Judge Bitar of the content of the decision, which entails that he continues his investigations related to the file of the Port of Beirut explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nA judicial source told Arab News that the defendants have exhausted all the steps that could be undertaken at the Court of Appeal, and that they might resort to the Court of Cassation to obstruct the interrogation of 4 former ministers in addition to former Prime Minister Hassan Diab.<\/p>\n

\nBitar has not yet undertaken any indictments despite the fact that nearly 16 months have passed since the disaster.<\/p>\n

\nAccording to another judicial source, Bitar has rejected all attempts to remove the brief from him and to refer the ministers and the prime minister to a court that would be formed by Parliament to try presidents and ministers, a request made by Hezbollah and the Amal Movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEIRUT: On Tuesday, at the request of President Emmanuel Macron, French Ambassador to Lebanon Anne Griot briefed Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Macron\u2019s Gulf tour, especially his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which \u201cexpressed its commitment to helping Lebanon, pointing out the need to implement the commitments that have been undertaken,\u201d as stated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}