Afghan Foreign Minister Mr Abdullah Abdullah has met Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri on ways for Afghanistan to benefit from Lebanon's post-war rebuilding efforts.
Mr Abdullah said today : "I delivered President [Lebanese President Emile] Lahoud a message from [Afghan interim leader] Mr Karzai. It is a message of friendship which expresses hope that our relations, which have been good in the past, continue and develop even more.
"I examined with him our strategy to rebuild our devastated country and I told him that we wanted to benefit from the Lebanese experience in this domain," he said.
Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war destroyed much of the country and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Since 1992, the country has undergone massive reconstruction without major international aid.
The reconstruction is not yet done, though public debt already amounts to $28.5 billion, or 170 per cent of gross domestic product.
AFP