Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri welcomed in Ain el-Tineh on Wednesday the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon, Yasser Al-Alawi, with whom he reviewed the general situation and bilateral relations.

The Speaker later met with the head of the US delegation for indirect negotiations to demarcate the maritime borders between Lebanon and occupied Palestine, Amos Hochstein, and the accompanying delegation, in the presence of US ambassador Dorothy Shea.

Speaker Berri indicated that "we have a new opportunity to resume negotiations in Naqoura, with the new US efforts being exerted in this context."

He also tackled, during his meeting with Hochstein, "the importance of excluding Lebanon from the controls of Caesar's Law on the issues of importing Egyptian gas and electricity from Jordan."