LEBANON: Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that there is chance for the talks between the rival Lebanese leaders to succeed shortly before anti-Syrian leader Saad al-Harir and parliament speaker Nabih Berri held second rounds of

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday (March 9) that there is chance to reach an agreement between the Lebanese leaders . Rival Lebanese leaders held talks for a second straight day on Friday, raising hopes that a deal to end Lebanon's political crisis could be imminent. The four-month-old power struggle between the anti-Syrian majority coalition and the opposition which includes Hezbollah had led to deadly sectarnian clashes and threatened civil war. "It's possible for the new efforts to achieve results but we have to expect all the results , what I want to tell everyone: Don't waste this chance, let's cooperate to ensure its success, because its success will be for the benefit for Lebanon and all Lebanese," Nasrallah told supporters attending a religious ceremony. Majority leader Saad al-Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, and Shi'ite Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a key opposition leader, held a late-night round of talks a day after their first meeting since the crisis erupted in November. The two men had earlier issued a joint statement reporting progress at Thursday's talks and saying they would be holding more meetings. Political sources said both leaders were negotiating on behalf of other leaders in each of their camps and sounded upbeat in their assessment of the talks. Berri and his allies -- Christian leader Michel Aoun and Hezbollah -- are locked in a power struggle with the Hariri-led coalition behind Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government after the premier refused to give them veto power in cabinet.

ITN Source | March 10, 2007

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