Friday 19 November 2010

Syrian-Saudi Efforts to Break Deadlock


19/11/2010 Syria and Saudi Arabia are intensifying their efforts in a bid to solve the current Lebanese crisis. In this context, Saudi King Abdullah's advisor is likely to visit Damascus in the coming hours in order to mull options that may lead to an exit.

Prince Abdel Aziz bin Abdullah will submit a set of answers to some suggestions that he had received from President Bashar Assad during a recent trip to Syria.

The Lebanese daily al-Akhbar considered on Friday the Saudi prince’s visit as decisive because it will hold solutions for stuck issues.

The daily also quoted well informed sources as saying that the “atmosphere is positive and there are signs of reaching a compromise despite all difficulties.”

For his part, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said that Syrian-Saudi efforts to resolve Lebanese tensions have “reached an advanced stage, but that does not mean that the country has passed the stage of danger,” Ad-Diyar newspaper’s Friday edition quoted an anonymous source close to Jumblatt as saying.

On the other hand, the Lebanese daily as-Safir reported on Friday that the Prime Minister Saad Hariri is to visit Damascus prior to an expected trip to Tehran before the end of November.

Tensions are high in Lebanon after reports that the STL will soon indict members of Hezbollah in the Hariri’s assassination.Hezbollah condemns such indictment stressing that such move is orchestrated by the west especially by the United States in order to target the resistance and protect the Zionist entity.

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said it loudly in November 11 that “any hand seeking to detain any of our mujahedeen will be cut off.”

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