Lebanese authorities hailed their security co-operation with Saudi Arabia after they foiled an attempt to smuggle a quantity of narcotics into Lebanon, the country's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday night.
More than 17kg of cocaine and 11,200kg of ecstasy were thwarted from being smuggled into Lebanon, hidden inside a vehicle coming from an unspecified country, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
The ministry said the joint effort with Saudi Arabia was part of a broader anti-narcotics strategy aimed at curbing drug trafficking across the region. It said the operation affirmed its “steadfast commitment to confronting all smuggling attempts and rejecting the use of its territories as a transit point or platform to harm its interests and relations with brotherly countries”.
It also praised its security forces for carrying out the operation. NNA said two suspects had been arrested while a search was under way for a third.
Ties between Riyadh and Beirut have been strained for years due to the influence of Iran-backed Hezbo
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