Annan calls emergency UN Council meeting

[tocqueville]

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an emergency Security Council meeting for Sunday to prod the 15-member body into taking action on the Lebanon-Israeli conflict, such as issuing a demand for a ceasefire.

Annan, speaking to two reporters on his way into U.N. headquarters, said he would brief the council on the Israeli air strike in the Lebanese village of Qana in which 54 people died, and on other developments.

The secretary-general said he hoped council members would realize "how dangerous the situation is and how it can't escalate and get out of hand and the urgency for them to act."

Annan said he had always been in favor of an "unconditional" cessation of hostilities, which did not preclude the need for a long-term political agreement

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[The Deacon]

1. Doesn't Matter, Kofi

Bolt-on will veto any resolution the S.C. comes up with.

[Joanne98]

2. Bolton will push for sanctions on Syria and Iran.

the push for world war 3 is on. It's all the neo-cons care about. Any deal is just BS. Someone needs to exposed the REAL PLAN.

[Mandate My Ass]

3. The Israeli ambassador just blamed the victims some more

He is vile. "The Lebanese people sleep with bombs, sometimes when you sleep with bombs you don't wake up in the morning."

He actually said that to justify the atrocity his country committed.

[goclark]

4. Please tell me no he did not say that~ please nt