- Title: France's Macron goes on walkabout, eats food in Beirut streets
- Date: 17th January 2025
- Summary: BEIRUT, LEBANON (JANUARY 17, 2025) (AGENCY POOL) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, WALKING IN STREET MACRON POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH PEOPLE CROWD IN STREET MACRON SMILING MACRON GREETING PEOPLE PEOPLE AT BALCONY WAVING AT MACRON / MACRON WAVING BACK MACRON BEING OFFERED LEBANESE FOOD MACRON BEING OFFERED PIZZA VARIOUS OF MACRON BEIN
- Embargoed: 31st January 2025 11:26
- Keywords: Lebanon Macron
- Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
- City: BEIRUT, LEBANON
- Country: Lebanon
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Middle East,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001400217012025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Lebanon on Friday (January 17) to help speed up the formation of a government that can quickly implement reforms and open the door to reconstruction following last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Macron walked around the streets of Beirut where people had lined up for a chance to take a selfie with him and shake his hand. Others brought him food to taste.
Since a truce brokered by France and the United States in November, Paris has played a key role in helping break Lebanon's political deadlock, along with the United States and Saudi Arabia, that has now led to a new president and prime minister.
It was the French leader's first visit in Lebanon since 2020.
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