Lebanon could be open to negotiating its border with Israel, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports.
RIA quoted Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab referring to upcoming talks with Israel to regulate the two countries' border dispute, to be mediated by US diplomat David Satterfield.
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Bou Saab said that Lebanon was "unwilling to give up any part of its border, on land or at sea. However, we are open to talks to establish the border."
Formally at war since 1948, Israel and Lebanon have long disagreed on border demarcations in the eastern Mediterranean, an issue that gained prominence in the past decade when large deposits of natural gas were found there.
The Lebanese minister's remarks come a week and a half after Israel said it expected the US-mediated talks to begin "within weeks" and two weeks after Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that Israel was open to talks to demarcate its borders with Lebanon.
