Arab League says no deal on Lebanon crisis reached

BEIRUT, Dec 23 (Reuters) Arab League Chief Amr Moussa said today he had not reached a deal to end Lebanon's political crisis but efforts would continue to try and find a solution. Moussa warned Lebanese leaders against escalating the crisis and said the mediation was complicated by the fact that the opposing leaders were not communicating with each other.

''We conducted a table of understanding ... and it is left to the different sides to decide what to do with regards to accepting it,'' Moussa told reporters.

''We hoped that these suggestions, formulas, and this agenda would make us reach a breakthrough in the trouble but ...

communications between the different leaderships are severed or non existent or not existent enough.'' Moussa was mediating in a tense standoff that pits an anti-Syrian coalition with a majority in parliament and government against an opposition led by Hezbollah.

Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who has Western and Saudi support, has so far rejected demands by Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, for a decisive say in government.

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