DOHA -QATARI-LED ARAB mediators stepped up efforts to salvage talks aimed at ending Lebanon's crisis yesterday after negotiations between the US-backed government and the Hizbullah-led opposition suffered a setback.
Rival leaders appeared back at square one on the fourth day of intense bargaining in Doha but mediators managed to get the talks going and maintained hope that a deal could still be reached to pull Lebanon back from the brink of a civil strife.
"We won't leave here without a deal," said Saad al-Hariri, leader of the ruling coalition.
Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani made proposals on Sunday on powersharing in a new government and the rivals had been expected to hammer out a compromise over a new election law yesterday.
(Reuters)