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Lebanon PM posts selfie with Saudi crown prince after strain

Lebanon PM posts selfie with Saudi crown prince after strain | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018 file photo, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, speaks during a ceremony to mark the 13th anniversary of the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, in Beirut, Lebanon. The office of Lebanon’s Prime Minister says he has received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia from an envoy of the Gulf monarch. It’s the first such gesture following tension between the two countries in the wake of the now-reversed resignation of Saad Hariri. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

BEIRUT – Lebanon’s prime minister has met with Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince during his first trip to the kingdom since relations strained following Saad Hariri’s brief resignation late last year.

Hariri posted a selfie with Mohammed bin Salman and the kingdom’s ambassador to the United States following their meeting in Riyadh late Friday at the end of a three-day visit. The three appeared in informal clothes and flashed wide smiles, apparently signalling relations have been normalized following last year bizarre sequence of events around Hariri’s resignation.

Hariri’s resignation, announced while he was in Riyadh, was widely seen as orchestrated by his Saudi backers who complain that the Lebanese government is controlled by the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group. Hariri reversed his resignation upon return to Lebanon following international mediation.

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