November 13, 2017
BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Michel Aoun has said the campaign waged by Lebanon to secure the return of Saad al-Hariri after his shock resignation as prime minister from Saudi Arabia on Nov. 4 has brought “positive results”, a visitor to Aoun said on Monday.
Aoun said Hariri’s comments in a televised interview on Sunday night showed that the political settlement underpinning Lebanon’s coalition government still stands, the visitors to the president said.
Saudi-allied Hariri said in the interview he would return to Lebanon within days and held out the possibility he could rescind his resignation if Iran-backed Hezbollah agreed to stay out of regional conflicts such as Yemen. The comments were his first in public since he resigned from Riyadh on Nov. 4.
(Reporting By Angus McDowall; Editing by Catherine Evans)
