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Lebanese delegation to visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss maritime border - presidency

FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Deputy parliament speaker Elias Bou Saab speaks at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon October 3, 2022. Dalati Nohra/Handout via REUTERS

A delegation headed by Lebanon's deputy speaker of parliament, Elias Bou Saab, is due to visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss delineating their maritime border, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Twitter on Monday.

A dispute over their sea boundary emerged last year after Syria granted a licence to a Russian energy company to begin maritime exploration in an area Lebanon claimed. Several gas discoveries have been made in the eastern Mediterranean.

(Reporting by Moataz Mohamed; Editing by Jon Boyle)

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