Italy Says Syria OKs EU Border Personnel

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http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/M/MIDEAST?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-09-09-17-06-45

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Italy's prime minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to the deployment of European Union personnel along Lebanon's border with Syria.

Syria's official news agency denied news reports that the EU personnel under discussion would be border guards.

"The reports by some news agencies that Syria has accepted that European border guards monitor the Lebanese-Syrian borders are not true," the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

The positioning of European Union guards could help allay Israel's concerns about the smuggling of weapons from Syrian to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, which the U.N. Security Council has demanded be stopped under the nearly month-old cease-fire it brokered to end the war in southern Lebanon.




Syria and Iran are Hezbollah's main backers, and Western and Israeli officials repeatedly have said the guerrillas receive arms from the two countries, often in land convoys from Syria.

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