Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein said the basis of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was a 2006 United Nations resolution but that it would require more than just commitments from the warring parties, AFP reports.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 states that only the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers should be deployed in southern Lebanon, while demanding the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory.

“The commitment that we have is to resolve this conflict based on (UN Resolution) 1701 — that is what the solution is going to have to look like,” Hochstein said on his first visit to Beirut since the onslaught started.

Resolution “1701 was successful at ending the war in 2006 but we must be honest that no one did anything to implement it,” he added, saying: “Both sides simply committing to 1701 is just not enough.”

“We have to put things in place that would allow for confidence that it will be implemented for everyone,” he told a press conference after meeting Lebanon’s Hezbollah-allied speaker of parliament Nabih Berri.

“We have to know this is not just going to another round of conflict in a month or a year or two years,” he said.