***Kekalahan di Irak, telah bikin AS tidak lagi bernyali. Harapkan aksi multilateral, belum tentu dapat response positive dari Prancis. Harapkan bantuan dari Arab Saudi, belum tentu dikasih. Posisi AS makin sulit dan kasihan.
***Tentara Israel masuki Lebanon Selatan, makin mendekati hari ajal. Hizbollah sedang tunggui waktu perang gerial... Sunday » July 23 » 2006 Rice to outline plan for Israel-Hezbollah peace; she and Bush to meet Saudis Canadian Press Friday, July 21, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will lay out U.S. plans Friday for a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting, and she and President George W. Bush will meet with Saudi Arabian officials Sunday to discuss it. Rice departs later Sunday for the Mideast, and will carry the U.S. strategy for ending the 10-day-old warfare and establishing stability in southern Lebanon, a senior administration official said. The secretary was expected to detail her itinerary and agenda in Washington later Friday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Rice had not yet made her plans public. Announcing plans for the weekend meeting Bush and Rice will have with the Saudis, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "This is part of the president's broader diplomatic outreach on the developing situation in the Middle East." Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One as Bush was en route to an appearance in Colorado, Perino said the aim was "to provide the president and Dr. Rice a chance to continue to strategize with a key partner in the region on a diplomatic solution that will address the root causes of violence and terror in the region." Bush and Rice are to meet with Saudi Foreign Minister Saudi al-Faisal and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, chief of the Saudi National Security Council. The plans emerged following two days of meetings in New York with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and envoys he sent to the region this week. Although Annan called Thursday for an immediate ceasefire, that is opposed by the United States. The Bush administration says the United States and the UN agree on the wider diplomatic goals for the region. The United States has resisted international pressure to lean on its ally Israel to halt the fighting. Rice was likely try to point the way to a relatively quick ceasefire, but not an immediate one. She is expected in Israel on Tuesday, Israeli officials said on condition of anonymity because the schedule was not yet confirmed. Rice is also expected to meet with European foreign ministers and representatives from Arab countries that have been unusually critical of Hezbollah. That meeting would take place somewhere in the Mideast, but the location is not set. Rice's mission would be the first U.S. diplomatic effort on the ground since the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon began. The Rice initiative likely would be designed to give the United States a major role in brokering peace there. She is not expected to try to get a signed deal during her brief visit, however, and she risks laying out the U.S. goals only to have either side refuse to bargain. Annan outlined the basic terms of a proposed ceasefire and the longer-range goals to remove the Hezbollah threat in southern Lebanon in a speech on Thursday. Hezbollah is an Islamic militant group that also exerts political control over southern Lebanon, overshadowing the weak democratic central government in Beirut. UN and U.S. plans for long-term stability would give international help to the Beirut government to expel Hezbollah and install its own army troops, something it has been unable to do on its own. Israel called up reserve troops Friday and warned civilians to flee southern Lebanon, as it prepared for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone. http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=396cd973-c01f-4f35-9b1b-96e7125ac4f7&k=15918 Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
