Blinken set to make another push to defuse conflicts in West Asia

US secretary of state

Antony

Blinken

will make another push for a ceasefire when he heads to

West Asia

on Monday - his eleventh to the region since the October 7, 2023 - the state department said. US envoy

Amos Hochstein

held talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on Monday on conditions for a ceasefire between

Israel

and Hezbollah. He said that it was "not enough" for both sides to commit to

UN resolution 1701

, which ended the last round of

conflict

in 2006.

"We are working with govt of

Lebanon

, the state of Lebanon, as well as the govt of Israel to get to a formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all," he said.