Fragile peace holds in Lebanon

Foreign ministers from France, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia were today due to arrive in Beirut to work out details on assembling a 15,000-strong international force to oversee peacekeeping efforts in Lebanon.

The force would work with an equal number of Lebanese soldiers to police the ceasefire that took hold on Monday morning and ended 34 days of brutal combat, Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah rocket barrages.