Saudi ends Lebanon mediation efforts: Saudi Finance Minister

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has abandoned
its mediation efforts in Lebanon, saying the
situation was "dangerous," Al Arabiya television
said on Wednesday, citing Foreign Minister
Prince Saud al-Faisal.
The foreign minister said that Saudi's King
Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

had been in contact to help "end the whole
Lebanon problem."
"When that did not happen, the custodian of the
holy mosques said he was pulling his hand out"
from the effort, Prince Saud was quoted as
saying.
"If the situation reaches full separation and
(regional) partition, this means the end of
Lebanon as a state that has this model of
peaceful cohabitation between (different) religions
and ethnicities," he added.

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