FILE - Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss casts his ballot for parliament elections in downtown Beirut on Sept. 3, 2000. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

FILE - Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss is seen on April 25, 1990 in Lebanon. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Syrian Vice-President Farouk al-Sharaa, left, shakes hands with former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss in Damascus on May 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)