US Calls for Galvanizing Int’l Support to Lebanese People after French, American Envoys Hold talks in Riyadh

US Calls for Galvanizing Int’l Support to Lebanese People after French, American Envoys Hold talks in Riyadh

Washington has called for galvanizing broader international support to provide relief to the Lebanese people, said State Department spokesman Ned Price.

Saudi Arabia is an important stakeholder in Lebanon, he added in wake of the visit to Riyadh by French Ambassador to Lebanon Anne Grillo and US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea.

The ambassadors held trilateral meetings with counterparts in Saudi Arabia to discuss the situation in Lebanon.

Price said the American administration was seeking to provide humanitarian aid to the Lebanese people, stressing that the talks that were concluded in Riyadh will benefit the people.

He stated that Shea and Grillo's "important" consultations with Saudi Arabia tackled "ways in which together we can support the Lebanese people and, very importantly, help to stabilize the Lebanese economy that has placed such a tremendous burden on the Lebanese people."

"The strategy we have called for and the strategy that I think is collectively shared by a number of our partners is one that seeks to have Lebanon's leaders, again, show sufficient flexibility to support a government that is principally willing and capable of supporting fundamental reform so that the Lebanese people can achieve and have access to some of that humanitarian relief and to achieve their