Bou Habib Instructs Lebanese Chargé d'Affaires in Paris to Follow Up on French Initiative

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants in the caretaker government, Abdullah Bou Habib, has instructed the Chargé d'Affaires of the Lebanese Embassy in Paris, Counselor Ziad Taan, to follow up on the topics discussed during Prime Minister Najib Mikati's visit to Paris last Friday and his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. For this purpose, the Chargé d'Affaires, accompanied by the embassy's First Secretary, Youssef Jibr, met with the Deputy Director for North Africa and the Middle East at the French Foreign Ministry, Emmanuel Souque. The discussion focused on the follow-up to the French initiative aimed at de-escalating tensions along Lebanon's southern borders, French efforts to end the presidential vacancy, the French endeavor to organize an international conference to support the Lebanese army, and the issue of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.