BEIRUT, May 11 (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt asked on Sunday a rival Druze leader allied to the opposition to mediate an end to sectarian clashes in mountains east of Beirut.

Jumblatt told LBC television he was asking rival Talal Arsalan to secure the deployment of the Lebanese army in villages that were seeing heavy fighting between Jumblatt's Druze supporters and Shi'ites loyal to Hezbollah.

"I tell my supporters that civil peace, coexistance and stopping war and destruction are more important than any other consideration," Jumblatt told the station in a brief telephone interview.

(Writing by Nadim Ladki)

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