Monitoring Desk
BEIRUT: Saad Al-Hariri has announced to visit Egypt to meet President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Tuesday and will discuss bilateral issues with the Egyptian president.
Earlier on November 4, Saad Al-Hariri announced his resignation as a Lebanese prime minister in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia and he stayed there for a week and after he met with the French President Emmanuel Macron and recent the regional and political situation of Lebanon.
Hariri’s office said this on Sunday that Saad Al-Hariri will visit Egypt on Tuesday and will return to Lebanon on Wednesday to participate in the Independence Day Celebrations.
However, Lebanese President Michel Aoun has said he will not accept Hariri’s resignation until it is delivered in person and all leaders of Beirut have called for his speedy return.
The resignation sparked a political crisis in Lebanon and put it on the front line of a regional power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Hariri while resigning from the premiership criticized Iran and its ally Hezbollah which is in Lebanon’s coalition government. Apart from a brief trip to Abu Dhabi, he remained in Saudi Arabia until he flew to France.
