Lebanese leader Saad Hariri has arrived in Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron, Al Jazeera reports.
"I will ... welcome Prime Minister Hariri with the honours that are due to a prime minister, indeed resigned, but whose resignation hasn't yet been recognised in his country, as he hasn't been there," Macron said at a conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Friday.
"So nevertheless I'll welcome him as prime minister," he added.
Macron said that Hariri then has the intention to return to his country in the following days or weeks.