Lebanese government agrees to UN resolution

BEIRUT, Aug 12 (Reuters) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said today the government, which includes Hizbollah ministers, had agreed unanimously to a UN Security Council resolution to end fighting between Israel and Hizbollah.

''Despite some reservations ... the council of ministers agreed unanimously to the resolution issued by the Security Council,'' Siniora told journalists after a government meeting to discuss the resolution passed by the UN Security Council yesterday.

The government includes two ministers from Hizbollah.

The cabinet would meet tomorrow to discuss implementation of the resolution, Siniora said.

Siniora had earlier described the resolution as a triumph for Lebanese negotiators compared to an initial draft. Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the resolution had negative aspects but could have been worse.

The UN resolution called for a ''full cessation of hostilities'' and authorised up to 15,000 UN troops to move in to enforce a ceasefire. It said Hizbollah must halt all attacks and Israel must stop ''all offensive military operations''.

The resolution stipulates that after fighting stops, Israel must withdraw all its forces from Lebanon at the earliest opportunity, in tandem with a UN-Lebanese troop deployment.

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