{"id":52285,"date":"2017-11-14T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T06:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=52285"},"modified":"2017-11-14T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T06:50:22","slug":"eu-says-hariri-must-return-lebanon-warns-saudi-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/eu-says-hariri-must-return-lebanon-warns-saudi-interference.html","title":{"rendered":"EU says Hariri must return to Lebanon, warns against Saudi interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">EU says Hariri must return to Lebanon, warns against Saudi interference<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">EU says Hariri must return to Lebanon, warns against Saudi interference:- The European Union on Monday urged Saad al-Hariri to return to Lebanon, calling on all political forces inside the country to focus on the domestic agenda and warning Saudi Arabia against meddling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Hariri\u2019s resignation, announced from Riyadh, and its aftermath have put Lebanon at the forefront of regional rivalry between Shi\u2018ite-led Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia Riyadh in recent days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWe appeal first of all to the political forces to focus on Lebanon and what they can deliver to their citizens, Prime Minister Hariri to return to his country and the unity government &#8230; to focus on domestic achievements,\u201d the bloc\u2019s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWe expect no external interference in this national agenda. We believe it is essential to avoid importing into Lebanon regional conflicts,\u201d she said after hosting a meeting of all 28 EU foreign ministers in Brussels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">She praised the achievements of the Lebanese government under Hariri, who resigned saying he feared assassination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He has criticized the Iran-backed Hezbollah, which is part of his coalition government, for sowing strife in the Arab world and said he could take his resignation back if the group agreed to stay out of regional conflicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">France\u2019s foreign minister, speaking on the sidelines of the ministerial gathering in Brussels, also called on other countries not to interfere in Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWe are preoccupied by the situation in Lebanon&#8230; we are worried about its stability, we are worried about its integrity, we are worried about non-interference,\u201d Jean-Yves Le Drian said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cTo reach a political solution in Lebanon, all political figures must have complete freedom of movement,\u201d he told reporters when asked about Hariri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Germany\u2019s Sigmar Gabriel also said Hariri should return as his departure has shaken Lebanon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Their Luxembourgish counterpart Jean Asselborn warned Riyadh that a meltdown in Lebanon would further destabilize the tumultuous Middle East, adding that \u201ca hostage crisis, if that is what is happening with the Lebanese Prime Minister in Saudi Arabia, is not very good news for the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-lebanon-politics-france\/eu-says-hariri-must-return-to-lebanon-warns-against-saudi-interference-idUSKBN1DD0YS<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/eu-says-hariri-must-return-lebanon-warns-saudi-interference.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU says Hariri must return to Lebanon, warns against Saudi interference EU says Hariri must return to Lebanon, warns against Saudi interference:- The European Union on Monday urged Saad al-Hariri to return to Lebanon, calling on all political forces inside the country to focus on the domestic agenda and warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[100376,100377],"class_list":["post-52285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-eu-says-hariri-must-return-to-lebanon","tag-warns-against-saudi-interference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}