"Any decision that breaks away from the Lebanese consensus will further complicate things and increase disorder," Assad said in a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, official SANA news agency reported.

"Syria supports all that the Lebanese agree upon," Assad said. "There are a number of powers that are trying to secure political gains for Israel that could not be achieved by waging war."

A draft UN Security Council resolution agreed upon by France and the United States on Saturday calls for "full cessation of hostilities" between Israel and Hezbollah which have been involved in a bloody conflict since July 12.

Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri rejected the draft resolution as it ignored a seven-point plan put forward by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora during an international conference in Rome on July 26 to resolve the Mideast crisis.

The seven-point plan demands an immediate ceasefire, prisoners swap, putting the disputed Shebaa Farms under the UN control, sending the Lebanese army into south Lebanon and expanding the UN peacekeeping force.

Some 900 Lebanese have been killed and a quarter of Lebanon's population displaced since Israel launched a massive assault on Lebanese Hezbollah in retaliation for the abduction of two Israeli soldiers.