The European Union (EU) has listed the military wing of Lebanese group Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation.

Hezbollah has already been blacklisted by the United States, Australia and Canada.

"Agreement (was) reached to list Hezbollah," one EU diplomat said. Three other diplomats confirmed that, according to the Reuters news agency.

Last week Lebanese President Michel Suleiman called on Brussels not to move against Hezbollah, describing the resistance movement as an "essential component of Lebanese society".

The blacklisting of Hezbollah requires the agreement of all 28 EU member states.

Earlier this month Britain renewed its efforts to put Hezbollah on the EU terror list, but France, Italy and Germany were still reluctant to back the move.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore is in Brussels for the event. This is the first meeting of EU Foreign Ministers since the decision to send Irish troops to serve with UN Forces on the Golan Heights, and the Tánaiste will brief his colleagues on the deployment.

Speaking on her way into the meeting, the EU Foreign Affairs Policy chief Catherine Ashton outlined what was on the agenda.