Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said in remarks published Monday that Lebanon would like to restore bilateral ties with Saudi Arabia.
Bassil told pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that Beirut was hoping to "restore the normal situation" with Riyadh.
Relations between the two countries deteriorated after Saudi Arabia halted $4 billion in military grants to Lebanon and warned its citizens against traveling to the country in February.
The move came after Lebanon's Foreign Ministry refrained from endorsing joint statements issued a month earlier at separate meetings held in Cairo and Jeddah. Both accused Iran of supporting "terrorism" and the Cairo statement explicitly classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
The Saudi stance was also provoked by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's campaign against Saudi Arabia, accusing Riyadh of backing terror groups in Syria and forging an alliance with Israel in its determination to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Bassil, the head of the Free Patriotic Movement and President Michel Aoun's son-in-law, told the daily that the new head of state "has positive outlook toward the Arab world."
"Aoun was Hezbollah's ally when he was the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, but became an ally of all Lebanese when he was elected president," he said.
Bassil added that Hezbollah "was part of the overlapping parts and factions in Syria," describing the situation as "thorny."
"There should be harmony between all [the Lebanese] factions and to leave Syria for Syrians to end the ongoing military situation and battle against terrorism," he said.
