Mikati pays farewell visit to Aoun

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati met Tuesday with President Michel Aoun in Baabda and left without making a statement.

Media reports said that the two leaders are not meeting to discuss the deadlocked government formation, but that Mikati is rather paying a farewell courtesy visit to the President, few days before the end of his term.

Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported Monday before the meeting, that the two leaders will discuss the border deal with Israel that will be signed Thursday.

Aoun also met on Tuesday with Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali, who said, in a press conference, that Syria did not "cancel" a scheduled appointment with a Lebanese delegation, but rather apologized for not being able to receive the delegation on Wednesday because of "previously-scheduled appointments".

The delegation was supposed to head to Syria to discuss the sea border demarcation between the two countries.