Publication Date:
Sat, 2008-05-10 03:00
BEIRUT, 10 May 2008 — As violence raged in Beirut, Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Aziz Khoja said all Saudi citizens in the country were safe and that no one had been injured, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The Saudi Embassy, he said, has evacuated Saudi citizens from troubled areas and provided them with alternative accommodation. He said the embassy would extend all help to Saudis who wished to leave the country.
In his telephonic conversations with various Lebanese leaders, Khoja urged them to maintain calm and to return to the table to settle all differences.
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