The caretaker Prime minister, Najib Mikati, arrived at the Elysee Palace at 1 p.m. on Friday for a one-hour meeting with president Emmanuel Macron. The meeting is attended by his political adviser, Boutros Assaker, President Macron’s adviser on Middle East affairs, Claire Legendre, the director of the Africa and Middle East department at the Quai D’Orsay, Anne Grillo, and the French ambassador to Beirut, Hervé Magro.
