DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has abandoned its mediation efforts in Lebanon, saying the situation was “dangerous,” Al Arabiya television said today, citing Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.
The foreign minister said that Saudi’s King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had been in contact to help “end the whole Lebanon problem.”
“When that did not happen, the custodian of the holy mosques said he was pulling his hand out” from the effort, Prince Saud was quoted as saying.
“If the situation reaches full separation and (regional) partition, this means the end of Lebanon as a state that has this model of peaceful cohabitation between (different) religions and ethnicities,” he added.