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Bukhari Affirms 'Deep' Ties with Lebanon During Visit to Tripoli

Ambassador Bukhari with the acting Mufti of Tripoli, Sheikh Mohamed Imam (NNA)

The Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Al Bukhari made a visit to Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli where he affirmed the strong ties between Lebanon, its people and Saudi Arabia.

Bukhari met in Tripoli with several of the city’s religious leaders. He stressed the “deep relations with Lebanon and its people.”

In Tripoli, Bukhari met with Acting Mufti of Tripoli and the North Sheikh Mohamed Imam, the former Mufti Sheikh Malik al-Shaar, the Maronite Archbishop of Tripoli Bishop Youssef Soueif, and the Metropolitan of Tripoli, Koura and their dependencies Archbishop Ephrem Kyriakos.

Earlier, Bukhari had met with Lebanese PM Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail in Beirut.

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