Doha: Bickering Lebanese politicians postponed the thorny issue of Hezbollah's weapons on Saturday at talks in Qatar aimed at ending a feud that drove their country to the brink of a new civil war.
Qatari Prime Minister Shaikh Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jabr Al Thani "offered to come up with a proposal on the Hezbollah weaponry issue and present it to the two parties," a Lebanese delegate told reporters.
o hand over its guns to the government following the 1989 Saudi-brokered Taif agreement to end the 1975-1990 civil war, because it was fighting the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon.

By AP BEIRUT - Lebanon's US-backed ruling coalition challenged their Hezbollah-led rivals yesterday, demanding that top-level talks in Qatar on ending

Beirut/Doha - Lebanon's rival leaders managed to achieve some 'progress' on their first day of talks that started Saturday in Doha regarding a national unity government and a new electral law.
'We cannot say that all the problems are solved, there are progress in some issues, but we have not yet reached a full positive progress on all issues,' anti-Syrian Telecommunication Minister Marwan Hamadeh, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
pted the Qatari hosts to intervene and stop the bickering inside the hall,' the delegate, who requested anonymity, said.

By Nadim Ladki DOHA (Reuters) - Rival leaders tackled divisive issues at the heart of Lebanon's political crisis on Saturday at Qatari-mediated talks aimed at pulling their country back from the brink of civil war.
Government and opposition leaders left a conference room separately in the morning, after 90 minutes of tense talks on ending a standoff that has paralyzed the government for 18 months and left Lebanon with no president since November.
ollowers of the U.S.-supported ruling coalition. Continued...

BEIRUT, May 16 (Xinhua) - Lebanon's rival leaders opened their Arab-brokered talks in Doha on Friday, seeking to end a long-running feud to avoid a new civil war, said reports reaching here from the Qatari capital.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani opened the dialogue in a Doha hotel at about 9 pm (1800 GMT). The opening session lasted for just a few minutes.
red talks on forming a national unity government and a new election law.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Leaders of Lebanon's US-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition went to Qatar Friday for the highest-level talks since the

Lebanon's government and opposition leaders are meeting for talks brokered by the Arab League in the wake of the country's worst internal violence since the

DOHA (AFP) - Lebanon's squabbling political leaders were to meet in Qatar on Friday for talks brokered by the Arab League aimed at ending a long-running feud that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war.
After nearly a week of fighting that left 65 people dead and some 200 wounded, the US-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition agreed to a new national dialogue to elect a president and form a unity government.
the authority of the Lebanese state throughout the country," to refrain from using weapons to further political aims and to remove militants from the streets.