BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanese factions traded accusations Sunday while meeting a second day in Qatar for talks in the country's 18-month political crisis.

In discussions between the government and Hezbollah-led opposition in Doha, Hezbollah's chief negotiator, Mohammed Raad, accused the government of trying to “blackmail” the opposition by raising the subject of Hezbollah's weapons.
“No one opens the door to a debate about” Hezbollah's arms, Raad told the Al-Manar Television. He said the group's “weapons and capabilities are beyond any discussion” and were not supposed to be on the table in Doha.
However, a member of the pro-government team said no political deal was possible without “serious progress” on the issue.
The Qatar-hosted talks are meant to help the Lebanese form a national unity government and elect a compromise presidential candidate. Lebanon has had no president since pro-Syrian Emile Lahoud's term ended in November.
The talks follow Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. They are the first time top leaders from the Lebanese sides came face-to-face since November 2006.
The two Lebanese sides flew Friday to Qatar after a deal mediated by the Arab League that brought an end to a week of violence in Beirut, northern Lebanon and the central mountains. Clashes left 67 people dead and wounded more than 200.
The pro-government official, speaking to the AP, said Arab mediators were trying Sunday to reconcile the government and opposition views on power sharing in a future government. A separate committee made up of the two sides was working on fine-tuning the text of a new election law.
Raad, the Hezbollah lawmaker, said the pro-government group was seeking to cast itself as a victim of the recent fighting and that government efforts at “blackmailing will lead nowhere” in Doha. He said 14 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the latest clashes.
The violence was triggered by government measures against Hezbollah. It eventually forced the government to revoke the measures, giving Hezbollah an upper hand in the standoff.