Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari has told those he met in recent weeks that the kingdom has prevented Saudi businessmen from investing in Lebanon before the election of a new Lebanese president, a media report said.
“The kingdom has stood in the way of hundreds of Saudi investors who had recently expressed their desire to invest in Lebanon,” al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Bukhari as saying.
Saudi authorities “prevented them from transferring money to it before the election of a president,” the ambassador reportedly added.
Separately, Bukhari told those he met that Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed that they “both would not interfere in the presidential election.”
Source : Naharnet
