30 July 2010
✍The Baabda tripartite summit: Abdullah, Assad and Sleiman
PartiesPresidencySaudi ArabiaSyria / Syrian Army
On 30 July 2010 King Abdullah and Bashar al-Assad arrived together in Beirut for a tripartite summit with Michel Sleiman to calm tensions before the indictment in Hariri's assassination; the peak of the Saudi–Syrian rapprochement, which collapsed with the fall of Hariri's government six months later.