Lebanon opens first embassy in Syria amid thaw in ties
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Lebanon opened its first embassy in Syria on Monday, five months after the neighbors established diplomatic ties after decades of turbulent relations. Charge d'Affaires Rami Mortada raised the Lebanese flag over the embassy's building located in the Damascus residential neighborhood of Abu Remmaneh, which is also home to the US Embassy. This Article is only available in The Daily Star on-line archive. Containing over 100,000 articles, The Daily Star archive is an excellent information source and research tool for all events in Lebanon and the region since 1997.
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