Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain's foreign minister, has described as "very positive" Syria's attitude to a two-month-old truce in Lebanon which Spanish troops are helping enforce.
Moratinos said: "We got a very positive response from the Syrian authorities that they want to cooperate and be constructive in the consolidation of implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701."
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The Spanish minister, who also came to Damascus in March, is the most senior Western official who continues to visit the Syrian capital and drew strong US criticism earlier this year for his defiance of Washington's efforts to sideline the Syrian regime.
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Ahmad Fatfat, Lebanon's acting interior minister, has said Syria is bent on destabilising Lebanon, whose security forces, he said, are not yet strong enough to prevent more possible assassination attempts.
al Jazeera