UN Security Council draft resolution on Lebanon seeks cease-fire ..

[struggle4progress]

UN Security Council draft resolution on Lebanon seeks cease-fire, peacekeepers

NEW YORK -- A draft resolution circulating among U.N. Security Council members would call for an immediate halt to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and seek a wide new buffer zone in south Lebanon monitored by international forces and the Lebanese army.

The proposal, which aims to promote lasting peace between Lebanon and Israel, was sent quietly by France to the other 14 members of the council ahead of a possible meeting of foreign ministers in New York to discuss Lebanon sometime next week. A copy of the draft was obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.

The proposal stresses the need "to create the conditions for a permanent cease-fire and a lasting solution to the current crisis between Israel and Lebanon." It emphasizes the need to end the escalating violence, but also "to address urgently the root causes that have given rise to the current crisis.

The conditions for a permanent cease-fire include a buffer zone stretching from the Blue Line -- the U.N.-demarcated boundary that Israel withdrew behind in 2000 - to the Litani River, which was the northern border of Israel's occupation of Lebanon in 1982 ...

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[HuffleClaw]

1. bush will order it vetoed

which will serve as further proof of his war-mongering intentions.

[mom cat]

2. to the Litani river! ... It is about the water! Why doesn't Israel build a

"buffer zone" on it's side of the border? We all know how good they are with building walls!