EU foreign policy chief calls for immediate Lebanon ceasefire
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana has called for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East ahead of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's expected return to the region.
'What is important is to get a ceasefire as soon as possible,' Solana told Agence France-Presse, when asked if Rice should seek a different strategy to resolve the crisis in Lebanon.
'We are going to consider now first a humanitarian component, but without a political settlement, a ceasefire, it will be very difficult to do it,' he said, amid mounting calls for an immediate halt to the fighting. Read more
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