Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem crossed into Lebanon Sunday for the first visit by a top Syrian official since Damascus ended 29 years military presence in its smaller neighbor last year, state news agency said. Moallem drove through a northern Lebanese border point, National News Agency reported, and expect to hold his first meetings in the country his Lebanese counterpart, Fawzi Salloukh, in Byblos, north of Beirut. Later, Moallem was to see President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
