The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Bukhari, continues his tour of religious and political leaders and met today, Thursday, with Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai at the patriarchal headquarters in Bkerki, where he left without making any statements.
The media official at Bkerki, Walid Ghayad, quoted Bukhari as confirming that "the Kingdom has no objection to any president who comes through elections in the Parliament, and it is keen not to be accused of obstructing the presidential elections, and that these decisions are Lebanese, which they can make themselves."
According to Ghayad, Bukhari stated that "the Patriarch's initiatives are capable of achieving partnership," noting that "the presidential entitlement is a Lebanese decision made in Beirut, and the Kingdom is against any impositions, and it is confident that the Lebanese have the ability to make decisions."
The Saudi ambassador had visited yesterday, Wednesday, Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri, the head of the "Lebanese Forces" party, Samir Geagea, and the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Deryan, as part of a tour to find a consensual mechanism leading to the election of a president for the republic.
