By NNN-SANA,
Damascus : Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has said that talks between President Bashar al-Assad and President Michel Suleiman of Lebanon have laid the ground for excellent relations between the two countries.
Speaking to reporters in a joint news conference with his Lebanese counterpart Fawzi Salloukh, Moallem said that “the Lebanese brothers will be informed of any developments on the Syrian-Israeli indirect talks.”
He said that “demarcating Sheba’a farms cannot be made under the Israeli occupation … this occupation should be ended.”
The foreign minister said that the issue of the missing people has been discussed, and al-Assad and Suleiman agreed on the mechanism of the committee in charge of this issue.
The Lebanese foreign minister said the Syrian-Lebanese summit “was successful in the full meaning of the word and in all its talks and discussions.”
He said that the summit was “a very positive step for an excellent and distinguished future relations between the two sisterly countries.”