Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah told Syria's President Bashar al-Assad today to meet international demands to start withdrawing troops from Lebanon immediately, Saudi officials said.
Abdullah told Assad during talks in Riyadh "Syria must start withdrawing soon, otherwise Saudi-Syrian relations will go through difficulties", one Saudi official said.
"They know what they should do. They should withdraw immediately," another Saudi source said. "This is what we told them and this is what the whole world is telling them."
Assad flew to Saudi Arabia for crisis talks with Prince Abdullah as pressure grew on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon following last month's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut.