ARAB AFFAIRS - Sept 23 - Don't Soon Expect A Syria-Lebanon Border Agreement.

APS Diplomat Recorder | September 27, 2008 | Copyright

When Lebanon's new president, Michel Sleiman, and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, held a landmark meeting in Damascus last month, one of the agreements reached between them was to delineate and demarcate the 320-kilometer border between their two countries. Although the announcement was widely welcomed, progress is likely to be slow as political realities in Lebanon weigh heavily on what should be a straightforward technical survey and joint agreement between Beirut and Damascus. Complications are many and varied. The border remains disputed in numerous places, Syrian ...

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