Jimmy Carter will visit Lebanon and Syria this month as revealed by Assafir, Gor­don Brown visit is sched­uled on 27 Nov.

Hariri told the Russ­ian news­pa­per RBC­Daily that Lebanon is ready to rec­og­nize Abk­hazia and South Osse­tia as two inde­pen­dent states. Russ­ian polit­i­cal ana­lyst says that Hariri is medi­at­ing between the West and Russia:

Europe finally real­ized that the Geor­gian gov­ern­ment is respon­si­ble for the Cau­ca­sus attack, but the West can not admit it.

They use politi­cians from non-Western coun­tries such as Saad Hariri to announce what they can not say publicly.