Lebanese Ambassador to Syria Assumes Duties by End of March
Lebanon”s ambassador to Syria Michel el-Khoury will assume his duties by the end of this month, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Saturday.
The daily said that career diplomat Khoury, who is Beirut”s current envoy to Cyprus, will assume his duties before the end of March unlike earlier media reports that said the ambassador will travel to Syria in mid-April.
Lebanon opened its first embassy in Syria on Monday, five months after the neighbors established diplomatic ties following decades of turbulent relations.
Charge d”affaires Rami Mortada raised the Lebanese flag over the building located in the Damascus residential neighborhood of Abu Rummaneh, which is also home to the U.S. embassy.
Syria has yet to name an envoy to Beirut, where it opened an embassy in December that is not yet fully operational although it has been staffed with three diplomats.