Lara Yazbek
central- The President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad discussed the demarcation of the common maritime borders between their two countries last Saturday. After the talks, a Lebanese official told Reuters that Aoun had told Assad that Lebanon wanted to “enter into negotiations with Syria to delimit its northern maritime borders.”
Following this call, a delegation appointed by the President of the Republic, including Vice President of Parliament Elias Bou Saab, Ministers of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Bouhabib and Public Works Ali Hamiyah, and Director General of Public Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim , they will visit Damascus, where they will hold meetings and contacts to outline the lines of a working document for the next phase.
After reaching an agreement on the demarcation with Tel Aviv with the American mediation, which will be signed this week in Naqoura, the official Lebanon has therefore decided to complete this dossier by communicating with Syria and Cyprus, which is the road map that President Aoun drew his latest media speech, days ago, in which he announced Lebanon’s approval of the demarcation agreement.
Unfortunately, according to political sources opposed to “centralization”, this passage appears to be part of the pact’s efforts in its final days, to accumulate conquests, through which Aoun is trying to retreat as if he had entrusted him with a train to fix the border situation. between Lebanon and Syria, on the right path. .
However, his attempt is unsuccessful and condemns the pact more than it benefits, sources follow, because why did he wake up today with this problem? Was it not appropriate that the Lebanese state and President Aoun, who opened broad channels of communication between him and the Assad regime, initiated these negotiations with the alleged “brother” years ago, or at least in conjunction with negotiations with the enemy? But this did not happen and no serious measures were taken to delimit with Syria and protect our naval blockades from the regime’s seizure.
Furthermore, the directions of the Syrian era, the maritime one, would have had to include, for years, the land, in order to delimit the borders between the two states to the east and south and to resolve the confusion about the identity of the Shebaa Farms. However, even this strategic step has not been taken. How come? Is it because it disturbs the ally Hezbollah, which suits him and adapts to his weapons, keeping the borders with Syria loose and the Shebaa farms “occupied” ?!
