BEIRUT (AFP) - Arab League secretary general Amr Mussa admitted Friday he had failed in a bid to bring Lebanon's pro- and anti-Syrian camps to the negotiating table to end a political crisis in the country.

"Some ideas and theses proposed today hindered the possibility of reaching an official understanding" between the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority and the pro-Syrian opposition, Mussa told reporters at the end of a four-day visit. Heading a delegation representing Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, Mussa said however that progress had been made toward a dialogue, with a view to the formation of a unity government and presidential elections in September