Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa headed for Lebanon Wednesday afternoon on a visit to resume efforts on settling the Lebanese political crisis, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.
It's the second visit in one week by the chief of the pan-Arab bloc to Lebanon for finding a solution to the ongoing Lebanese political crisis.
On Jan. 12, Moussa left Beirut after a four-day-long marathon talks with Lebanon's rival factions, failing to install an three-point Arab initiative aimed at ending the presidential crisis.
The Arab plan, which was approved at an Arab foreign ministers' meeting earlier this month, aimed at immediately electing Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman as Lebanese president, proceeding to forming a national unity government and drafting a new electoral law.
Following an bombing attack on Tuesday that killed at least three and wounded more than 20 others in Beirut, Moussa urged all parties concerned to exert utmost efforts for finding a solution to the Lebanese crisis.
Having been rocked by a series of bombing attacks in the past three years, Lebanon is currently facing its most serious political crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war.
For the first time in its history, the presidential seat has been void for more than 50 days since Nov. 24 when former President Emile Lahoud stepped down and the sharply divided Lebanese parliament has delayed the elections for 12 times without a consensus.
Source: Xinhua
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