The Takeaway: Kuwait takes lead in Gulf effort to solve Lebanon crisis
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Hot take: Top Kuwaiti diplomat offers Gulf lifeline to help end Lebanon crisis
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah, in Beirut on Jan. 22-23, presented Lebanese leaders with a 12-point Gulf proposal to end the political crisis there, saying that Lebanon cannot “be a platform for any aggression – verbal or actual.“
Rebuilding Trust: The visit by Al-Sabah was the first by a Gulf official since October, when diplomatic ties between Lebanon and the Gulf were fractured over comments by the then-Information Minister Georges Kordahi criticizing Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Yemen.
Last month French President Emmanuel Macron brokered a deal in which Kordahi resigned in return for the kingdom restoring diplomatic ties.
