In Rome, Lebanese Prime Minister Faoud Siniora addressed the failure to agree on a ceasefire.

• Lebanese Prime Minister Faoud Siniora: “We need, wanted on the one hand to ask the participants to provide the humanitarian relief assistance, which is important and to provide all other assistance in this respect. But what’s more we wanted a ceasefire, an immediate ceasefire, I think this matter was well discussed, quite amply, in the discussion. We made some progress in terms of handling all the issues, but that was our expectation.”

The Lebanese Prime Minister went on to say: “The more we delay the ceasefire, the more we are going to witness more being killed, more destruction and more aggression against the civilians in Lebanon… We are being pounded every day. The country is being cut to pieces.”