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Aug 14, 2008 3:45 am US/Pacific

Syria, Lebanon Move To Mend Fences

 CBS News Interactive: About The Middle East

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) ― Syria and Lebanon have agreed to negotiate the demarcation of their border - a longtime Lebanese demand - as part of a new push to normalize relations.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and Syrian President Bashar Assad released a joint statement Thursday saying a committee would be formed to negotiate agreement on the border. The presidents had agreed Wednesday to establish full diplomatic ties.

The border between Lebanon and Syria has been ill-defined since the two countries became independent from French rule in 1943.

Suleiman is visiting Damascus in the first trip to Syria by a Lebanese head of state since 2005, when Syria ended three decades of stationing troops on the territory of its smaller neighbor.

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