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Saudi foreign minister calls for 鈥榯ransparent and independent鈥 Beirut explosion investigation

Update Saudi foreign minister calls for 鈥榯ransparent and independent鈥 Beirut explosion investigation
Prince Faisal bin Farhan tells an emergency donors conference that 黑料社区 stands with Lebanon. (Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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Updated 09 August 2020

Saudi foreign minister calls for 鈥榯ransparent and independent鈥 Beirut explosion investigation

Saudi foreign minister calls for 鈥榯ransparent and independent鈥 Beirut explosion investigation
  • Prince Faisal bin Farhan told an emergency donors conference that 黑料社区 stands with Lebanon
  • Minister condemns 'destructive hegemony' of Hezbollah, which has history of storing explosives among civilians

RIYADH: 黑料社区 called for a transparent and independent investigation into the Beirut explosion, the Kingdom鈥檚 foreign minister said on Sunday.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan told an emergency donors conference that 黑料社区 stands with Lebanon. He described the explosion that killed more than 150 people as 鈥渉orrific.鈥

Prince Faisal said strong state institutions that work for the interests of the Lebanese people are vital to the reform required to guarantee Lebanon's political and economic future.
鈥淭he continued destructive hegemony of the terrorist organization Hezbollah worries us all, and we all know this organization鈥檚 history of using explosive materials and storing them among civilians in several Arab and European countries and in north and south America.鈥
鈥淟ebanon is in dire need of comprehensive and urgent political and economic reform to ensure that this terrible disaster will not occur again,鈥 he said.

He added that four planes carrying Saudi aid have arrived in Beirut.
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has provided 290 tons of medical equipment, food supplies and housing materials.

The conference was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.