UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen met Lebanese officials on Friday and offered support to national talks aimed at forging a deal over Hizbollah guerrillas that the Security Council wants disarmed. "For the first time the Lebanese are sitting down together without international or third parties and discussing independently and domestically all the difficult issues facing Lebanon," Roed-Larsen said on arrival at Beirut airport late on Thursday. "Every single difficult issue is on the table."
The Norwegian diplomat is due to present a report next month on progress in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559, which demands that foreign troops leave Lebanon and the militias in the country disarm. |