Lebanon-Unity Government
Lebanese political leaders have agreed on the make-up of a national unity government after six weeks of talks.

The Western-backed parliamentary majority is set to control slightly more than half of the cabinet.

Former opposition groups will meanwhile have enough seats to veto major decisions.

The recently elected President, Michel Suleiman, who is generally seen as a neutral figure, will appoint the key ministers of defence and the interior.

An agreement to form a national unity government was reached in May following and a long period of political paralysis and the worst sectarian violence in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990.

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