 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on Monday for a "cessation of hostilities" between Israel and Hezbollah in order to buy valuable "time and space" to put a well-armed "stabilisation force" along the Lebanon-Israel border.
| Too bad they couldn't get one in there before Hezbollah went nutz... Oh. I forgot. There used to be one there, made up of Frenchies and U.S. Marines. Hezbollah blew them up. |
| There's another one there now called UNIFIL. It's working well, huh? |
"We need to get the parties to agree as soon as practicable to a cessation of hostilities to give us time and space to work" on the multinational force, said Annan after talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G8 summit. Referring at least twice to "a stabilisation force", he said the UN needs "time and space ... to make sure we have the troops — well-trained, well-equipped troops — to go in quite quickly."
| That'd be Americans, Brits, and Frenchies. Hassan must be licking his chops. |
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is opposed to the deployment of international forces in Lebanon in an effort to end bloodshed in the region, senior officials said, countering a call by Britain and the UN. |