The first high-ranking Lebanese ministerial delegation to visit Syria in 10 years
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad will receive the Lebanese delegation.
A delegation from the Lebanese caretaker government will visit Syria tomorrow, Saturday, at the highest level of an official visit in ten years, with the aim of paving the way for a plan backed by the United States to alleviate the electricity crisis in Lebanon by importing electric power from Jordan through Syria.
A Lebanese official said that the delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Zina Aker will discuss the plan under which quantities of Egyptian gas will be provided to Jordan, enabling it to produce additional quantities of electricity, to be placed in the grid linking Jordan with Lebanon via Syria.
The Syrian Ministry of Information said in a statement that Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad will receive the Lebanese delegation, which includes the ministers of finance and energy, on the border tomorrow, Saturday.
The United States said it was in talks with Egypt and Jordan to help find solutions to Lebanon's energy crisis.
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