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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

French Foreign Minister Warns Lebanon Cannot Risk ‘Power Vacuum’

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna meets with Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati at the government headquarters in downtown Beirut, Lebanon October 14, 2022. (Dalati & Nohra)

France's foreign minister on Friday urged the swift election of a new Lebanese president, after a second vote in parliament to pick a successor to incumbent Michel Aoun failed.

"Lebanon today cannot risk a power vacuum," Catherine Colonna said at the end of a short visit to the Middle Eastern country, urging its leaders to live up to "their political and institutional responsibilities".

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