Saudi Arabia orders Lebanese ambassador to leave kingdom

RIYADH, Oct. 30 (YPA) – Saudi Arabia on Friday ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave the country within 48 hours and stopped all imports from Lebanon, a response to comments by a Lebanese minister who described the war in Yemen as a Saudi “aggression.”

Saudi state media added that the kingdom’s ambassador to Beirut was also asked to head back home.

The move came days after a video circulated on social media in which Lebanon’s Information Minister George Kurdahi described the war in Yemen as an aggression by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Kurdahi made the comments on a TV program before he was chosen for the post of Minister in September, but refused to budge under Saudi pressure or to apologise to Riyadh.

E.M