Qatari Prime Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani is set to arrive in Lebanon Tuesday afternoon for talks with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. The Qatari official will also meet with the speaker of the parliament, Nabih Berri, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam.

Qatar is part of the Quintet, a group of countries (United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt) seeking to unlock the Lebanese institutional crisis during the more than two-year presidential vacancy that preceded Aoun's election on Jan. 9.

Less than 10 days ago, the Kuwaiti foreign minister, Abdallah Ali al-Yahya, was in Beirut, and before him, the Saudi foreign minister, Faisal bin Farhan, after several years of a cold relationship with Lebanon. In October 2021, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait recalled their diplomats from Lebanon following controversial remarks made by former Lebanese Information Minister Georges Qordahi about the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Qatar, which maintains cordial relations with Tehran, smoothed things over by strongly condemning Qordahi's "irresponsible" comments, without severing diplomatic ties with Lebanon.