Egyptian foreign minister meets Saudi king: diplomat

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

RIYADH (AFP) — Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit met Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Saturday during a short visit to the oil-rich kingdom, an Egyptian diplomat in Riyadh said.

Abul Gheit delivered a letter from Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak to the Saudi monarch.

The source did not give the details of the letter but said it likely concerned a summit the two leaders held on Wednesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that covered Lebanon's protracted political crisis.

Lebanon's political deadlock has left it without a head of state for more than four months.

Parliamentary sessions to vote for a new president were postponed 17 times as the ruling coalition, backed by the West and most Arab states, and the Hezbollah-led...