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Lebanon summit fails to agree truce call
A 15-nation summit in Rome has failed to reach agreement on calling for an immediate ceasefire in southern Lebanon.
Before the talks, Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, had urged the Rome conference to back an "immediate cessation of hostilities" between Israel and Hezbollah forces.
But a joint declaration read after the conference fell short of Annan's request, instead pledging to work with "urgency" for a truce.
The declaration, read by Massimo D'Alema, the Italian foreign minister, expressed the international community's "determination to work immediately to reach with utmost urgency a ceasefire to put an end to the current hostilities".
A ceasefire to end the bloodshed in the region "must be lasting, permanent and sustainable," he said.
Deliberate attack
Earlier, Annan had criticised Israel over what he said was a deliberate attack that killed four UN observers in southern Lebanon.
"The death and destruction we have witnessed in the past two weeks including yesterday's tragic killing of UN peacekeepers compels this conference to send a strong message and to speak with one voice," he said.
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But a joint declaration read after the conference fell short of Annan's request, instead pledging to work with "urgency" for a truce.
The declaration, read by Massimo D'Alema, the Italian foreign minister, expressed the international community's "determination to work immediately to reach with utmost urgency a ceasefire to put an end to the current hostilities".
A ceasefire to end the bloodshed in the region "must be lasting, permanent and sustainable," he said.
Deliberate attack
Earlier, Annan had criticised Israel over what he said was a deliberate attack that killed four UN observers in southern Lebanon.
"The death and destruction we have witnessed in the past two weeks including yesterday's tragic killing of UN peacekeepers compels this conference to send a strong message and to speak with one voice," he said.
More
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F752D82E-1119-4E6E-94E4-C85819478C0A.htm
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The stormy meeting, which saw the United States pitted against European and Arab leaders, resulted in calls for a truce but little concrete action.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the formation of an force to help the Lebanese government exert its control over southern Lebanon, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the international community will be discussing the formation of that force in "the next few days."
She said such a force needs to be "strong and robust to bring about peace."
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/26/mideast.romeconf/index.html