Beirut is due to welcome Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday for summit talks with Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman.

Assad's visit will be his first since the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafik Hariri. The Syrian leader will be travelling to Beirut along with the Saudi monarch who is due in Damascus on Thursday as part of a regional tour that will also take him to Jordan. On Wednesday King Abdullah visited Egypt.

Also coming will be the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.




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World watch: Syria and Saudi Arabia, Friends Again
Christian Science Monitor: Why Syria and Saudi Arabia are talking again


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