A prominent source in the March 14 movement told As Safir daily on Friday that the Lebanese-Syrian summit fell short with respect to the issues of border demarcation and missing persons.

The source said that more progress had been expected on clarifying the fate of Lebanese who are missing or detained in Syria, as well as on the demarcation of the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said Thursday the demarcation effort would exclude the disputed Shebaa Farms area, which is under Israeli control.

The source told As Safir that linking the demarcation of Shebaa Farms with their liberation would complicate the effort to recover the area by diplomatic means and to place it under U.N. guardianship.

"Before liberating Shebaa Farms, it must be established that they are Lebanese, through the Syrian government's acknowledgment by means of a joint document with the Lebanese government, which will be sent to the United Nations," MP Walid Jumblat told As-Safir.

Sources in the Future Movement expressed their satisfaction with the summit with respect to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Syria, the newspaper Al-Liwa reported.

However, the same sources said that they had hoped for more details and transparency regarding the fate of Lebanese who are missing or detained in Syria, including specific timetables and a pledge for the release of all those who are being held in Syrian prisons.

Parliamentary sources in the March 8 group told Al-Liwa that the results of the summit showed Syria's evident desire to open a new page in its relations with Lebanon.

They said the summit refuted claims that Syria is refusing to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon because it does not want to recognize it as a free, sovereign, and independent state.

The sources maintained that the results of the meeting between President Michel Suleiman and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad consecrated Damascus' recognition of Lebanon's sovereignty and confirmed that Syria has no ambitions in its smaller neighbor.

The March 8 sources stressed that mutual respect for sovereignty would be in the best interests of both the Lebanese and Syrian peoples.