Saniora in Amman

Premier Fouad Saniora arrived in Amman Sunday for talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan on the Lebanon crisis and the strained Beirut-Damascus relations.

 

The state-run National News Agency, in a dispatch from Amman, said the talks later in the day fall within the framework of Saniora”s contacts with Arab leaders to scout ways of facilitating a settlement to the ongoing crisis.

 

The Saniora mission coincides with a visit by parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a prominent figure in the Hizbullah-led opposition, to Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Husni Mubarak.