BEIRUT, May 19 (Xinhua)-- A UN draft resolution circulated by the United States, France and Britain late Thursday to Security Council members to set up an international court draw mixed reaction in Lebanon, with the country's parliamentary majority rejoicing over the development and the opposition slamming it, local paper the Daily Star reported on Saturday.

    Prime Minister Fouad Seniora on Friday characterized the circulation of the draft on establishing an international tribunal into former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's killing as "very good."

    "For now, the discussion in New York is very good," Seniora's spokesman told the paper, adding "we need to wait for the final results, but this is a good beginning. We are not finished, but the meeting is very positive."

    However, Hezbollah labeled the UN resolution as "foreign interference in Lebanon's affairs" and called on Russia for help.

    According to the paper, Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar urged Russia on Friday to work on preventing foreign countries from meddling in Lebanon, "particularly the new U.S. tutelage."

    "The international community should know that confiscating constitutional rules in Lebanon makes us unresponsive to any decision issued by international institutions," Ammar said during a tour of Beirut's southern suburbs with Alexander Torshin, the visiting vice speaker of Russia's Federation Council.

    The United States, France and Britain, three veto-wielding powers on the 15-member panel, circulated on Thursday night a draft resolution that would endorse an agreement signed earlier by the United Nations and the Lebanese government on the establishment of the court.

    It decides that provisions of the agreement, including the statute attached on it, "shall enter into force upon adoption of the present resolution."

    A representative for the U.S. mission to the UN said no date had been set to vote on the draft resolution, according to the paper.

    The US-led draft follows a formal request from Seniora on Monday for Security Council action. Seniora's appeal cited Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's refusal to convene the legislature to ratify the UN-approved statutes to create the tribunal.

    Lebanon's parliament has not convened since this year as Berri, a major opposition leader, has declined to do so and has refused to receive any documents referred to parliament by Seniora's majority government, which he dismissed as "unconstitutional" since six pro-Syrian ministers from the opposition resigned in November, 2006.

    Earlier this week, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud urged the UN Security Council to stay out of the country's political in fighting and not to impose the tribunal.

    Lebanon is facing its worst crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war, being locked in a political impasse arose from the power struggle between the anti-Syrian bloc and the pro-Syrian opposition.

    Anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon have blamed Syria for Hariri's killing in Beirut in February 2005. Syria has denied any involvement.