LEBANON: SAUDI ARABIA'S CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH ARRIVES IN BEIRUT TO DISCUSS THE STALLED MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

Record ID: 189710

  • Title: LEBANON: SAUDI ARABIA'S CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH ARRIVES IN BEIRUT TO DISCUSS THE STALLED MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
  • Date: 26th June 1997
  • Summary: MASNAA, LEBANON (JUNE 26, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH ARRIVING ON LEBANESE SIDE OF BORDER WITH SYRIA 0.09 2. SV LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER RAFIK AL-HARIRI WELCOMING CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH 0.19 3. SLV/SV HARIRI AND CROWN PRINCE SEATED INSIDE VIP LOUNGE (2 SHOTS) 0.33 4. SV AL-HARIRI AND CROWN PRINCE WALKING OUT 0.49 5. SLV CARS WITH AL-HARIRI AND CROWN PRINCE DRIVING TOWARDS BEIRUT 0.54 BEIRUT, LABANON (JUNE 26, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 6. SLV CROWN PRINCE AND AL-HARIRI REVIEWING HONOUR GUARD 1.04 7. SV LEBANESE PRESIDENT ELIAS HRAWI WALKING WITH CROWN PRINCE AND AL-HARIRI 1.17 8. SLV OFFICIALS ENTER ROOM 1.27 9. SLV CROWN PRINCE AND PRESIDENT HRAWI SEATED 1.39 10. SV MEMBERS OF SAUDI DELEGATION 1.40 11. LV HRAWI, CROWN PRINCE AND AL-HARIRI SEATED 1.50 12. SLV CROWN PRINCE WALKING OUT 1.55 Initials P3 S3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 11th July 1997 13:00
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  • Location: MASNAA, NEAR LEBANESE-SYRIAN BORDER, AND BEIRUT, LEBANON
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  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA7DI9SC9MWZ2LXPLLL3MM0J9BY
  • Story Text: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah is the first senior Saudi official to visit Lebanon in nearly two decades.

    Prince Abdullah arrived in Beirut on Thursday (June 26) to discuss the stalled Middle East peace process.

    He will also hold talks on a controversial economic summit in Doha which Israel is expected to attend and which some Arab states want to postpone until peace negotiations resume, diplomats said.

    The prince, accompanied by a large delegation, arrived at the presidential palace east of Beirut after travelling overland from Syria. He was met at the border by Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and other senior Lebanese officials. The two men drove to the Lebanese capital Beirut for talks with Lebanese President Elias Hrawi.

    The visit is the first by a senior Saudi official since Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal came in 1978 in a bid to curb violence during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.

    Lebanese officials believe it signals the lifting of an undeclared ban on the travel of top Saudi princes to Lebanon imposed during the civil war, particularly since the mid-1980s when Moslem militiamen sacked the Saudi consulate in Beirut.


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