A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace on November 6, 2017, shows King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (L) greeting former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri in Riyadh.
King Salman met Hariri less than 48 hours after he resigned as premier in a televised address from Riyadh. (Photo: AFP)
Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said on Monday he was under the impression that Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation while in SaudiArabia over the weekend, would return to Beirut within days.
Machnouk said Hariri's meeting with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh on Monday showed "rumours" were untrue, in an apparent reference to speculation in Lebanon that Hariri had been detained in Saudi Arabia or forced to quit.
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