✍The Arab committee announces a halt and the Doha invitation

On 15 May 2008, after meetings with the Lebanese leaders, the Arab ministerial committee announced a preliminary agreement: a halt to hostilities, the withdrawal of the gunmen, the reopening of the roads and national dialogue in Doha the next day, and the government withdrew the two decisions; the official toll up to that day was eighty dead and more than two hundred wounded. The dialogue opened in Doha on 16 May and lasted five days.