The new Lebanese government led by Fuad Siniora, the first of the post-Syrian era, is set to win parliamentary approval on Saturday after three days of debate.
The main anti-Damascus alliance that nominated Siniora has an eight-seat majority in the 128-member legislature after parliamentary elections in May and June.
Siniora's 24-member line-up is the first elected government since Syria ended its three-decade military presence in its smaller neighbour in April in the face of intense international pressure.
His cabinet includes a minister from the Shia Muslim movement Hizb Allah.
Reform program
Siniora on Thursday presented a series of reforms to parliament, pledging a programme to focus on national reconciliation and democracy.
After the confidence vote, Siniora is to make his first official visit abroad on Sunday to Damascus to try to improve relations that have deteriorated since the troop pullout.
Siniora has called for "healthy, privileged and solid relations" with Lebanon's former political masters.
Siniora, 62, is a former finance minister and close ally of predecessor Rafiq al-Hariri, killed in a massive bomb blast in Beirut in February widely blamed on Syria and its allies in Lebanon.
Syria relations
Siniora is due to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri during his visit, Lebanese officials said Saturday.
"I want to come back (from the trip) with a new way of dealing between Lebanon and Syria, a new thinking, that we should co-operate and create an attitude of openness between the two countries," he said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday.
"The attitude has to be based on mutual interest and respect."
Since the elections, the two sides have been locked in a row, with Lebanese trucks being blocked at the border in a major blow to trade, and large numbers of Syrian workers have left Lebanon, depriving their country of desperately needed remittances.
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Lebanese Prime Minister-elect Fouad Siniora waves upon his arrival at parliament in Beirut July 28, 2005. (REUTERS)