Badr Abdel Atty, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, had a phone call on Wednesday with Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament.
Abdel Atty conveyed the directives of the President of the Republic to provide all aspects of support to Lebanon, in light of the important historical turning point it is going through in the current period.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed the necessity of reaching a Lebanese consensus, to end the presidential vacuum in Lebanon, and to elect a consensual Lebanese president who can lead Lebanon to confront internal and regional challenges and risks, stressing that Egypt will continue to provide all forms of support to Lebanon.
For his part, Nabih Berri expressed his deep appreciation to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for his continued support for Lebanon on the political and humanitarian levels, praising Egypt’s support to Lebanon at this delicate stage.