Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri returned Monday evening to Beirut from a foreign trip.
Shortly after his return, Hariri held talks at the Center House with Jerome Bonnafont, the head of the Africa and Middle East department at the French foreign ministry, his office said.
Bonnafont was accompanied by French Ambassador to Lebanon Emmanuel Bonne.
Talks tackled “the situations in Lebanon and the region from all aspects,” Hariri's office said in a terse statement.
Bonnafont is in Lebanon for a 48-hour visit and he held separate talks on Monday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.
He is scheduled to hold talks with other leaders in the coming hours.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, MP Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the parliament's electoral sessions, stripping them of the needed quorum.