Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri said on Thursday that the Rome conference on the Israel-Lebanon conflict this week was a failure, as the participants failed to help hammer out a ceasefire.

Berri said in an interview with an Egyptian television that the meeting's success weighed heavily on whether there was a ceasefire deal.

Since the participants failed to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, the meeting was a failure, he added.

Berri also said the United States was an accomplice of Israel's military actions against Lebanon.

Foreign ministers and officials from 15 nations and representatives of the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank met in Rome on Wednesday.

But the meeting achieved almost nothing, as the participants did not succeed in setting a timetable for a ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and the deployment of international peacekeepers.