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.

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'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.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon's ruling coalition demanded Saturday that talks to end the country's 18-month-old political crisis tackle the issue of

Lebanon's rival political leaders are holding talks in Qatar aimed at ending the sectarian conflict which left at least 65 people dead in recent days.

Talks aimed at ending Lebanon's protracted political crisis are to resume in the Qatari capital on Saturday morning. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani,