Report: Arabs give Paris deadline before launching own Lebanon initiative

Arab and Gulf nations have given France a deadline to try to break the presidential deadlock in Lebanon and the latest Qatari initiative was a “message” to Paris, an Arab diplomat informed on the Lebanese file said.

“Should Paris fail to secure the success of its initiative in the next few weeks, there will be a Gulf-Arab initiative, because there is insistence on ending the presidential vacuum in Lebanon,” the diplomat told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.

Moreover, the diplomat said he expects the Qatari and Arab efforts to be reactivated as of next week, in coordination with the U.S., France and Egypt, in order to find the needed solutions.