This is John Batchel, a conversation with Ambassador Hussain Hacconi, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States,

now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, on the occasion of the election of a president in Lebanon, in Beirut,

and the imminent choice of a prime minister, reorganizing Lebanon's government, shedding the overwhelming

power of Hezbollah. It's still powerful. And do the Arab states in the Middle East welcome

Lebanon's liberation, or at least escape from the complete embrace of Hezbollah.

The ambassador answers that question, starting with Saudi Arabia, the Arab League, celebrating

question mark.

Here's Sassan Akanei on the election of a president in Beirut.

More of this tonight.

I think that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, all other Arab countries are committed

to Lebanon's success.

Lebanon has always been an important member of the Arab community, and it's important to

continue to have it as a member of the Arab community.

It was very disturbing for most Arabs that it was a Iranian proxy for as long as it had become through Hezbollah.