بتاريخ السبت، 2 ديسمبر، 2000 11:00:00 ص UTC+3، كتب Bassem Medawar:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1050000/1050811.stm
Friday, 1 December, 2000, 23:51 GMT
Hundred of Syrian troops leave Beirut
Syria has redeployed hundreds of troops from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where they had been posted for years, to the eastern Bekaa Valley.
More than forty-five Syrian army trucks were seen transporting hundreds of troops, equipment and furniture on the main highway linking Beirut to
Bekaa.
Syria -- which has more than thirty-thousand troops in Lebanon -- was expected to pull its forces back to the eastern Bekaa valley two years
after the war ended.
Under a 1989 Taef agreement, which ended Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war, Syrian troops were to be stationed only in the eastern Bekaa Valley and
other points agreed by Lebanon and Syria. The size and duration of the
Syrian military presence had also to be agreed.
But none of these issues has been resolved.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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