RIYADH (AFP) — Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt will discuss the country's deepening political crisis with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia this week, Lebanon's information minister said on Saturday.
Jumblatt, a prominent lawmaker from the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, arrived in the oil-rich kingdom late on Friday for a three-day visit, Lebanese Information Minister Ghazi al-Aridi told AFP.
Jumblatt is expected to meet the Saudi monarch on Sunday for talks on the "latest developments in Lebanon," Aridi said.
Saudi Arabia has been actively involved in trying to end Lebanon's gravest political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, with parliament paralysed in a power struggle between the Western-backed government and the opposition.
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