The Beirut-based Saudi embassy staff members held a reception party here today in honor of Saudi ambassador-designate to Lebanon Ali bin Saeed Awad Assiri. The event was attended by Lebanon's Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Minister Fawzi Salloukh, Minister of Culture Tammam Salam, Minister of Public Worlds and Transport Ghazi Al-Areedi, Lebanon's Mufti Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Rasheed Gabbani, and a number of senior Saudi and Lebanese officials.