Egyptian foreign minister meets Saudi king: diplomat

by **Admin** Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:25 am

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)