Lebanon and Israel have agreed a shortlist of countries that could send troops to verify the disarmament of Hezbollah under a US-brokered agreement, a Lebanese official said on Friday, with the United States due to pick countries from the list. Another Lebanese official and two foreign diplomats have previously told Reuters that Israel and the United States had vetoed France. We decided which parties were impossible for each and set the potential actors,” the Lebanese official said. The Lebanese official said Beirut had rejected an earlier proposal for private security companies to play the role of third-party verifier of Hezbollah’s disarmament. The talks did not, however, produce an agreement on the next area from which Israeli troops would withdraw so that Lebanese troops could take control.