Lebanon PM vows to return home ‘soon’

BEIRUT: Saad Hariri, whose resignation as Lebanon’s prime minister the region, said Sunday (Monday in Manila) he is “free” in Saudi Arabia and will return to Lebanon “very soon.”

In an interview from Riyadh with his party’s Future TV, Hariri brushed aside rumors that he

“I am free here. If I want to travel tomorrow, I will,” Hariri said.

“I will return to Lebanon very soon,” Hariri said, adding later two or three days.”

stepping down from his post in a televised address on November 4 from Riyadh, and has yet to return to his native Lebanon.

However, Lebanese President his movements.

Hariri’s surprise resignation opposing sides in power struggles from Lebanon and Syria to Yemen.

and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah destabilizing the broader region.

in a situation where Iran interferes - feres alongside it,” he repeated on rival movement Hezbollah.

- put ourselves in the middle?”

As tensions heated up, the Arab League said it would hold an extraordinary meeting next Sunday at the request of Saudi Arabia to diplomats on Sunday. Saad Hariri

‘Rescind resignation’

Wearing a suit and tie and with a the former premier looked tired on Sunday and spoke softly but

Hariri, who also holds Saudi - ignation himself and wanted to submit it in Lebanon, “but there was danger.”

He also appeared to lay down an exit strategy, saying he would - tion” if intervention in regional

- referring to an agreement among they would not interfere in Syria’s six-year war.

He appeared to be alluding to Hezbollah’s military intervention on behalf of the Syrian govern

- lah said Friday that Hariri was “detained in Saudi Arabia, he is banned from returning to Lebanon.”

Hariri has spent the past week in a string of meetings with diplo King Salman.

trip to Abu Dhabi.

In his interview on Sunday, bin Salman in an apparent effort to put to rest rumors that the Saudi to step down.