A Syrian inheritance to respond to the border demarcation file and a French and Saudi mediation

The title of the demarcation of the border between Lebanon and Syria was not circulating over the past years, except from the angle of setting an end to smuggling of its types through dozens of illegal corridors, but it returned to the forefront and with the will and momentum of Lebanese during the past months, against the background of fortifying these borders and preventing any leakage of elements of terrorist organizations, armed gangs or smugglers, especially after recording several security incidents and clashes between armed men On both sides of these limits.

Hayam Eid wrote in “Al -Diyar”: The issue of demarcation in the American paper comes again to be presented between Beirut and Damascus, and the American presidential delegate Tom Brak discusses it with the two countries, in preparation for the completion of the necessary executive steps for that, although the Syrian -Lebanese communication has not yet been achieved in this regard, and Beirut is still awaiting the Syrian answer on this paper. Informed diplomatic sources confirm to Al -Diyar that the border file had been discussed during the recent visit of the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, to Paris, in light of the confirmation of both Beirut and Damascus at the time, and through statements issued by the two parties, the importance of demarcating the borders that extends at a distance of 360 km, and interferes in many areas and a distance of 50 km, and is still a dispute to this day between the people in the villages that fall part of Syria And the other part in Lebanon ..
These sources consider that the demarcation of the demarcation in a Baraka paper aims to close this file, but without this means that the completion of such a step is possible and easy in a short period of time, as practical application, according to military experts, requires a path that begins with field steps and has a political cover, in order to achieve stability on both sides of the borders between the two countries first and the closure of all the smuggling corridors that still witness Dozens of smuggling of goods and prohibitions secondly, and to end the border conflict dating back to the year 1943 third. It is well known that the official Lebanon has initiated the border demarcation file with Syria in the year 2010, but without this process reaching any practical results as a result of political and security considerations at that stage. Here, the sources reveal a French role associated with a Saudi role alongside the American role, although Damascus has not yet reached its response to the American paper that the Lebanese government has been approved two weeks ago. According to the experts, the executive steps begin by forming joint technical committees that work to solve problems by studying maps and displaying land ownership in overlapping villages, in order to determine the lines clearly according to historical documents, which are still part of France, which in cooperation with Lebanon and Syria is to approach the demarcation file at the present time, and by including this issue to the American paper.
In response to a question about the timing of the demarcation file, diplomatic sources are asserted by the priority and importance of this file, but it sees that the timing comes in light of the border security developments and the necessities of implementing Resolution 1701 and after changing the regime in Syria and the launch of French diplomatic dynamic and in coordination with the United States of America, capable of providing the common ground.
Based on the foregoing, diplomatic sources are concluded that the availability of the Lebanese and Syrian political wills will lead to a calendar to start the demarcation process that the sources put in a very important context, as it is inseparable from the course of the application of the ceasefire agreement and decision 1701, and will open a new page of relations between the two countries and will form a positive station in the path of overcoming differences in many files, the most prominent file of the displaced in Lebanon And other files of a political, security, financial and economic nature.