New Delhi, June 27 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Friday (local time) that the United States had brokered a framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon designed to promote "lasting peace and security".

Under the agreement, a ceasefire would take effect if Hezbollah halts all attacks and withdraws from southern Lebanon. The US State Department released the text of the agreement that was finalised earlier in Washington, DC, reported Al Jazeera.

According to the second provision of the agreement, the governments of Israel and Lebanon "commit to a reciprocal, sequences process" under which the Lebanese military "will restore effective sovereign authority over all Lebanese territory".

The agreement states that this pro...