Egyptian foreign minister meets Saudi king: diplomat

 

Egypt”s Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit met Saudi Arabia”s King Abdullah on Saturday during a short visit to the oil-rich kingdom, an Egyptian diplomat in Riyadh said.
 
Abul Gheit delivered a letter from Egypt”s President Hosni Mubarak to the Saudi monarch.

 

The source did not give the details of the letter but said it likely concerned a summit the two leaders held on Wednesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that covered Lebanon”s protracted political crisis.

 

Lebanon”s political deadlock has left it without a head of state for more than four months.

 

Parliamentary sessions to vote for a new president were postponed 17 times as the ruling coalition, backed by the West and most Arab states, and the Hezbollah-led opposition, supported by Syria and Iran, failed to settle their differences.

 

Both sides have agreed on a consensus presidential candidate, but continue to bicker about the make-up of the new cabinet.

 

Picture: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, seen here in 2007, met Saudi Arabia”s King Abdullah on Saturday during a short visit to the oil-rich kingdom, an Egyptian diplomat in Riyadh said. (AFP/UN-HO/File/Fred Noy)