Kuwait and Qatar join Gulf states in issuing travel warnings for Lebanon

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Kuwait and Qatar have joined Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in warning their citizens against travel to Lebanon.

Kuwait and Qatar have joined Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in warning their citizens against travel to Lebanon. The move came with more than a whiff of politics – the move followed a Saudi decision to cancel $4 billion in aid to Lebanon.

Riyadh stopped its aid to the Lebanese security forces in response to โ€œhostileโ€ positions linked to the Shia militia Hezbollah, that rules much of Lebanon.

On Qatarโ€™s news agency, Dohaโ€™s foreign ministry issued a statement calling on its citizens in Lebanon to โ€œleave for their own safetyโ€ and determined that no Qatari nationals should travel there.

Also on Wednesday, the Kuwaiti embassy in Beirut said all its citizens should leave โ€œexcept in extreme circumstances,โ€ advising those who remain to exercise โ€œcautionโ€ and avoid unspecified places which are โ€œnot safe.โ€

One day earlier, the Saudi foreign ministry issued a statement calling on โ€œall citizens not to travel to Lebanon, for their safety, and asking citizens residing in Lebanon or visiting not to stay unless extremely necessary.โ€

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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