The ban will be lifted when the Lebanese authorities provide adequate and reliable guarantees that measures have been taken to prevent drug smuggling, it said, and urged Lebanon to take the necessary action to address the issue.
Lebanon s caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe said in a statement that the smuggling of drugs and their export is detrimental to the Lebanese economy, farmers and the country s reputation and urged authorities to act.
The Saudi interior ministry said it would monitor other imports from Lebanon to decide if the ban should be widened.
The kingdom s General Directorate of Narcotics Control said on Friday that it had thwarted an attempt to smuggle 5,383,400 captagon pills and 2,466,563 pills of amphetamine hidden in a shipment of pomegranates coming from Lebanon.