Saudi King to Aoun: Kingdom Cares about Lebanon, National Unity
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Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz on Tuesday congratulated President Michel Aoun on his election during a phone call, wishing him success in his new national responsibilities, the presidency said in a statement.
The king stressed to Aoun the kingdom's “keenness on national unity among the Lebanese and on the brotherly ties that gather the two countries,” the statement said.
He also underlined that “the kingdom cares about Lebanon and the Lebanese.”
Aoun for his part thanked the monarch for his congratulatory phone call, expressing appreciation of “the kingdom's keenness on encouraging the Lebanese to come together and unite” and hoping Riyadh will continue to “support Lebanon in all fields.”
Aoun was elected president on Monday after around two and a half years of presidential void. His presidential chances were largely boosted in mid-October by a key endorsement from al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri, who is closed to Saudi Arabia.
Aoun's nomination also received crucial support from Iran-backed Hizbullah and the Lebanese Forces.
02 November 2016, 17:39
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I want to encourage you, the US tried democracy and it just doesn't work. So keep on keeping the Shia majority in Lebanon in chains, it'll make sense eventually. The Saudi solution--at least it seems like a solution to the "King"--is just to not think about it. Anything. Just remember, Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream; merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream until a mortar round explodes next to you.
