Hariri to visit Syria to revise bilateral accords

Lebanese PM wants Beirut to have 'privileged, sincere and honest relations' with Damascus.

BEIRUT - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will travel to Damascus next month to discuss revising bilateral accords, his press office said.

"The prime minister announced to the cabinet his intention to visit Damascus at the beginning of next month," it said in a statement late Wednesday.

"He noted the need to examine bilateral accords currently in place and to propose new agreements if need be."

Hariri, who took office last November, made a landmark fence-mending visit to Damascus in December, five years after the assassination of his father, ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri, which had been originally blamed on Syria, without evidence, and Damascus has denied any involvement.

The 39-year-old premier said at the end of the two-day visit, during which he held three rounds of private talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, that he wanted to see "privileged, sincere and honest relations" between the two countries.

Source: Middle East Online.
Link: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37787.