Jumblat Tries to Mend Bridges with March 14 Camp by Dining with Saniora

The daily An Nahar revealed on Sunday that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and the head of the Mustaqbal bloc Fouad Saniora met over dinner at a mutual friend’s house a few says ago.

It added that members of Jumblat’s National Struggle Front were also present.

A number past political developments were discussed, in a sign that Jumblat wanted to resume contacts with his former political allies, the March 14 forces, said the daily.

The MP also telephoned head of the Saudi Royal Diwan, Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Tubaishi to pay his condolences to Saudi King Abdullah over the death of his sister.