(MENAFN) France's far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met a foreign head of state for the first time, holding talks in Beirut with Lebanon's president, Michel Aoun.
"We discussed the long and fruitful friendship between our two countries," the National Front (FN) leader said after her 30-minute encounter with Aoun at the presidential palace in the hilltop suburb of Baabda, the Middle East's only Christian president.
Le Pen, who is leading polls of voter intentions for the first round of France's presidential election on 23 April, said they also discussed the refugee crisis in Lebanon, where more than one million Syrians have fled from conflict.
The FN leader, whose party takes an anti-immigrant stance, called on Sunday for the international community to step up humanitarian aid to keep the refugees in Lebanon.
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