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The announcement of the Riyadh summit, issued yesterday at the conclusion of the Arab-Islamic-American summit, caused a political shock in the Lebanese circles, especially in the axis of the forces of March 8, especially “Hezbollah”. He tweeted his knowledge of the announcement and its content, which embarrassed Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Ministerial sources told Okaz that Hariri decided to remain silent about Bassil's tweet, in order to prevent a shake-up within the government that would affect its cohesion and the electoral process.
While Minister Raed Khoury, representative of the Aounist movement in the government, considered that Saudi Arabia's position on "Hezbollah" is known. While a member of the Kataeb bloc, Representative Eli Maroni, expressed his hope that the government would not shirk the Riyadh declaration, and said: “What was issued by the Riyadh summit was expected, and therefore we hope that there will be no negative repercussions that began to shirk,” pointing out that “the United States and Saudi Arabia are looking to combat Terrorism has become widespread and its eradication has become an imperative necessity. Maroni hoped that "everyone will be aware that a new page has opened in the international community and that the decision to combat terrorism has been taken, and everyone is bound by it and submitting to regulations and laws." In a harsh response from the head of the Marada Movement, former Minister Suleiman Franjieh, to Bassil’s tweet, he said that the words of the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, and his disavowal of the Riyadh Declaration came in the manner of: “Watch, we have not seen anything.”
Rawia Hashmi (Beirut)
