BEIRUT — Kuwait's foreign minister said Sunday
that he has given Lebanese authorities a list of suggested measures to be taken
to ease a diplomatic rift with Gulf Arab countries.
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The proposal were delivered to Lebanon's
Prime Minister
Najib Mikati and President Michel Aoun during a visit by Kuwaiti
Foreign Minister
Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, the first to Lebanon
by a senior Gulf official since a spat erupted last year.
The visit, coordinated with Gulf Arab
states, is part of wider efforts to restore trust between Lebanon and its
Gulf Arab neighbors as the country grapples with an unprecedented financial crisis.
A list "of ideas and suggestions was
presented yesterday and mentioned again today to the president", Sheikh
Ahmed told reporters Sunday after meeting with Aoun.
"We are now waiting for a response from
them on these suggestions," he added, refusing to elaborate on the
proposed steps.
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou
Habib will visit Kuwait at the end of the month, Sheikh Ahmed said.
Mikati was also invited to visit the
oil-rich emirate, he added, without specifying a date.
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.
Last month, Kordahi resigned 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.
But tensions 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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