...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
called his Syrian counterpart Bashir al-Assad two days ago and discussed with him the bilateral ties between the two countries and the issue of demarcating the maritime border between Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...and Syria, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Saturday.
Aoun and Assad "agreed on forming official delegations from the ministries and official administrations in the two countries to hold meetings in Beirut and Damascus in order to quickly reach an agreement, especially that the points of contention are not of the unworkable type, although they require technical and legal discussions," the daily said.
The two leaders also stressed that the Lebanese-Syrian border demarcation discussions "would take place without any mediator and that what the two sides agree on would be documented as a treaty between two countries, which would not at all resemble what happened with Israel, neither in terms of the presence of a U.S. mediator, nor in terms of needing U.N. or international guarantees or indirect negotiations," al-Akhbar added.
"The relevant authorities in the two countries have started preparing the papers related to coordinates and the lines of the exclusive economic zones of the two sides," the newspaper said.