By Xinhua
Beirut : Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora discussed on Friday with three Arab foreign ministers prospects of an upcoming emergent ministerial meeting of Arab foreign ministers to be held in Cairo on Sunday.
Seniora received telephone calls from the foreign ministers of United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the prime minister’s information office said in a statement.
The discussion tackled the agenda of the ministerial conference and the prospects for this meeting, said the statement.
The foreign ministerial meeting is expected to discuss developments of the Lebanese crisis, particularly the failure of the Lebanese to reach a consensus over election of a new president for the country.
Lebanon has been without a president since Nov. 24 when ex-President Emile Lahoud stepped down without a successor and the sharply divided Lebanese parliament has delayed the elections for eleven times without a consensus.
The Lebanese ruling coalition and the opposition have been separated by a wide chasm since six of the latter’s ministers resigned from Seniora’s government in November 2006.