KUWAIT CITY —
Kuwait said Sunday that a Lebanese response to a list of suggested measures to ease a
diplomatic rift with
Gulf Arab countries is currently under review.
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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser
Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah said that receiving the response was a "positive step
by the Lebanese authorities".
He was speaking during a news conference
following a meeting of Arab foreign ministers, which was attended by Lebanon's
top diplomat Abdallah Bou Habib.
Sheikh Ahmed visited Beirut last week and
handed Lebanese leaders a list of suggested measures to ease a diplomatic rift
with Gulf Arab countries.
In October, Saudi Arabia and its allies
suspended diplomatic ties with Lebanon after the airing of comments by then
information minister Georges Kordahi criticizing a Saudi-led military
intervention in Yemen.
Kuwait recalled its ambassador from Beirut
and also asked Beirut's charge d'affaires to leave the emirate.
Kordahi resigned in November, in a bid to
ease the standoff and French President Emmanuel Macron said Paris and Riyadh
had agreed to fully engage to restore diplomatic ties.
"It is now up to the relevant parties
in Kuwait and in the Gulf states to study this response in order to find out what
will be Lebanon's next step," Sheikh Ahmed reporters.
The measures presented by Kuwait are part of
wider efforts to restore trust between Lebanon and its Gulf Arab neighbors as
Beirut grapples with an unprecedented financial crisis.
Despite Kordahi's resignation, tensions have
between Lebanon and Gulf Arab states have persisted, mainly over the powerful
Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, which is backed by Saudi's arch-rival Iran.
Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia's
ambassador to Beirut called on Lebanese political parties to "end
Hezbollah's terrorist hegemony over every aspect of the state".
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