BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and Hezbollah have formed a joint security committee tasked with dealing with any problem that may occur between the two parties at Mount Lebanon, after the bloody clashes that broke out between the majority and the opposition there in May.

PSP leader MP Walid Jumblatt, in a statement carried by local media on Friday, announced the formation of this joint committee, which he said was "a security committee and not a political one." The committee with be co-headed by Hezbollah's Security Officer Wafeeq Safa and PSP's MP Akram Shaheeb.

Moreover, Jumblatt said he would be talking a tour of Mount Lebanon with Parliament Speaker and Amal Movement leader Nabih Berri, aimed at reassuring the people of the instilment of security. -Agencies