{"id":1743,"date":"2017-11-15T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/lebanese-fm-only-hariris-return-can-prove-his-freedom\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:19:26","slug":"lebanese-fm-only-hariris-return-can-prove-his-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/lebanese-fm-only-hariris-return-can-prove-his-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese FM: Only Hariri's return can prove his freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has said that Prime Minister Saad Hariri can only prove his freedom by returning home.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tBassil made remark during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in France on Tuesday, presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u201cWe hope to resolve this with the quick and immediate return of Prime Minister Hariri to his country … where he has the right to do what he wants,” said Bassil.<\/p>\n

\n\tBassil also responded to reports concerning Saudi Arabia’s intruding punitive measures against Lebanon.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAny (Saudi) measures would not only be targeting Lebanon and its stability, this would be a punishment for the region because any instability in Lebanon would cause instability in the region,” he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier on Tuesday, Hariri announced he will return to Lebanon in the next two days in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lebanese prime minister said he will return from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon in the next two days.<\/p>\n

\n\tHariri announced his resignation in Riyadh on November 4, shortly after traveling to Saudi Arabia. The televised announcement saw him reading out from a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tLebanese government officials and senior sources close to Hariri believe that Riyadh forced him to step down and has further placed him under effective house arrest since he touched down in Saudi Arabia on November 3, a day before he announced his shock resignation in a televised address aired from the kingdom\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Lebanese official is in the Saudi capital with his wife and family. Observers say even if he returned to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia could still hold his family \u2018hostage.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last week that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir had assured him during a recent meeting that Hariri made the decision by himself. \u201cAs you probably know Hariri is a dual citizen of Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. His family has been living in Saudi Arabia for quite some time by his choice, so the foreign minister assured me this was a decision taken solely by him,\u201d Tillerson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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