Salam Expected to Visit Saudi Arabia
Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is planning to visit Saudi Arabia for Omra on Eid al-Fitr holiday, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Tuesday amid reports of a trip by President Michel Suleiman to Riyadh.
According to al-Liwaa, Salam would have the occasion to meet with top Saudi officials and al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-Premier Saad Hariri during his expected visit.
Later on, sources close to Salam denied to LBCI the report.
Informed sources also said that Suleiman would travel to Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah in addition to other top officials.
The sources did not rule out a meeting between the president and Hariri.
Suleiman was in Tehran on Sunday to attend the oath of new President Hassan Rowhani.
Former Minister Khalil al-Hrawi told An Nahar newspaper that Suleiman stressed to his Iranian counterpart during a meeting they held on the sidelines of his oath-taking ceremony that he should seek for an Iranian-Arab rapprochement and specifically an Iranian-Saudi rapprochement to obstruct any sectarian confrontation in the region.
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