PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron said Lebanon was facing a political and economic crisis, and that it would continue to suffer unless it enacted reforms.

Macron was speaking to reporters in Beirut, after his plane touched down at the start of an official visit following Tuesday's deadly warehouse explosion in the Lebanese capital.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by John Stonestreet) ((sudip.kargupta@thomsonreuters.com; +33 1 49 49 53 84;))