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2019-07-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israeli minister voices frustration with Lebanon over sea border talks idea
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel’s energy minister voiced frustration on Friday with what he called Leb’s failure to agree to US-mediated talks on setting their maritime border, suggesting Iran-backed Hezbollah was applying pressure on Beirut.
Senior US official David Satterfield has been shuttling between Leb and Israel in an effort to launch the talks between the countries, which have remained formally in a state of war since Israel was founded in 1948.
Israel and Leb 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.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on June 19 he expected US-mediated talks to start within a month.
On Wednesday, Leb insisted any demarcation of its sea boundary with Israel be implemented only as part of a wider package including the land border - something Israel has previously ruled out.
Steinitz sounded less upbeat on Friday.
"(The) Lebanese on the one hand really want to develop their natural resources, and the unresolved dispute with Israel is disruptive for them - for us too, but for them more," Steinitz told Tel Aviv radio station 102 FM.
But Steinetz added Leb could also be facing "internal pressure, that they (are) under the sway of fear of Hezbollah," referring to Leb’s most powerful armed force. Hezbollah is also part of the Lebanese coalition government. 
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