Syrian military intelligence agents have begun vacating offices in the centre of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Agents were seen loading equipment and furniture from the offices in the Ramlet al-Baida area onto trucks.
They also removed pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his late father from the building, while Lebanese police guarded the street.
Syria has promised the UN a full timetable for the withdrawal of its 14,000 troops and intelligence agents.
The dismantling of the intelligence offices came as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a brief visit to Damascus for unscheduled talks with President Assad.
Syria's official news agency said they discussed "the Lebanese arena" but gave no details.
Mr Mubarak has said publicly he is in favour of a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.
The White House said on Tuesday it saw "some positive steps" towards a Syrian withdrawal, but planned to keep up the pressure for a total pullout before parliamentary elections in Lebanon in May.
Key influence
About 4,000 Syrian soldiers have left Lebanon in the last week, leaving about 10,000. Most of these are being redeployed to Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley.
SYRIA IN LEBANON
On Monday, military intelligence officers left two offices in the north, in the town of Amyoun in Koura region and Deir Ammar on the coast, the Associated Press news agency said.
Other reports say that, for now, Syrian intelligence retains its Lebanon headquarters in the Bekaa Valley town of Anjar.
The presence of Syria's agents has been key to its political and military influence on Lebanon, analysts say, and the complete withdrawal of the agents is going to be hard to confirm.
The presence of the agents has been of greater concern for those Lebanese calling for Syria's withdrawal than that of the soldiers, whose role has been largely symbolic.
Syria's military first intervened in Lebanon in 1976.
On Monday, an estimated 800,000 people gathered in Beirut to protest against Syria's influence in Lebanon, in what was believed to have been the largest demonstration in the country's history.
It marked a month since the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a car bomb explosion, blamed by many opposition supporters on Syria or the Syrian-backed Lebanese leadership.
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