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China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-17 07:50
Lebanon opens 1st embassy
Lebanon yesterday opened its first-ever embassy in Syria in another sign of improving ties between the long-feuding neighbors.
The opening of embassies in Beirut and Damascus sealed the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the two countries for the first time since they gained independence from France in the 1940s. Syria opened an embassy in Beirut in December.
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