Rice says 'urgent' need for a ceasefire but conditions needed to be right

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http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0724/lebanon.html

Rice meeting leaders amid Lebanon crisis

24 July 2006 17:42

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been meeting leaders in the Middle East on the first leg of a visit to discuss the current crisis in Lebanon.

Before meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, Ms Rice said there was an 'urgent' need for a ceasefire in Lebanon, but that conditions needed to be right.

Saying she was 'deeply concerned' about the welfare of the Lebanese people, she emphasised that any peace deal must address the root cause of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Dr Rice will also meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during her visit to the Middle East.

Mr Olmert said his government would be prepared to consider the deployment of European soldiers in southern Lebanon to keep the peace.

Syrian minister Buthaina Shaaban said it was a disgrace that Dr Rice had taken so long to travel to the region. He also called on the US to involve Hezbollah in talks, as the Clinton administration had done ten years ago.

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1. Conditions that Condi Rice was looking for was to have 700,000

...Lebanese refugees, countless Lebanese women, children, elderly dead or maimed for life and half of the country side destroyed, so that she and John Bolton could have leveraged diplomacy at the negotiating table. In the meantime, Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists will be resisting, fighting, moving around making more trouble.

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2. Urgent my ass

that's why the hag took two weeks to go there. There can't be enough dead people for this administration.