BEIRUT: Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam and French President Francois Hollande discussed the Saudi-funded French arms deal between the two countries in a Friday meeting.
Salam was quoted by local media as saying that France was ready to help Lebanon resolve the presidential deadlock and that the Lebanese delegation had ironed out the final details of the arms deal.
Salam and Holland met in the Elysee Palace in Paris, where the prime minister is on an official visit to the French capital to finalize the arms deal for the ill-equipped Lebanese Army.
Speaking to Lebanese expatriates in Paris Thursday, Salam said the arms would be delivered in the coming weeks. He also said the French National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Commission would form a special committee tasked with following up on Lebanese issues and devising proposals to help the country end its crises.
France dispatched Jean-François Girault, head of the French Foreign Ministry’s Middle East and North Africa office to Beirut earlier this week. He held a series of meetings with several Lebanese officials in a bid to put an end to the lingering presidential vacuum.
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