European Union calls for an Immediate Cease fire.

[malaise]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2115055,00.html
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European Union foreign ministers will hold a crisis meeting Tuesday on the Middle East, seeking to exploit a window of opportunity presented by Israel's 48-hour suspension of air strikes to push for a full cease-fire.

Diplomats said the ministers will discuss the need for a cease-fire and take stock of humanitarian efforts in Lebanon during a working lunch in Brussels on Tuesday.

Some of the bloc's 25 member states are also expected to make informal commitments to contribute troops to the so-called "stabilization force," being thrashed out Monday at the United Nations in New York.

The ministers come to the table with near unanimity over the need for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, with the notable exception of Britain.

[mmonk]

1. Hate to say this but since America has abandoned

it's world leadership role for a world domination plan, I fully support the rise of the EU and hope they become the hope for the world now.

[RethugAssKicker]

3. Don't hate to say it !... I feel the same way !

[The2ndWheel]

2. Oh, well, if the EU calls for it

it'll be ignored just like every other call for cease fire.

[malaise]

4. Well Britain just turned down

the call for the cease fire at the EU meeting. This planet urgently needs regime change in Washington and London.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. British Foreign Secretary: don't make "more and more of a fuss"

Seriously, that's what she said on Monday morning in a radio interview.

Margaret Beckett: What we should make of it, I think, is that events in Qana - and, you know, we were all warning and worrying that this is something that would happen - events in Qana have changed things in Israel as well as they have changed things to everybody else's mind and across the world. It's tragic that should be so, but the important and urgent thing is to make sure that this is the basis for an agreement and that all the effort, and all the pressure, goes on to getting an agreement now, this week, not making more and more of a fuss about what happened two days ago. I deeply regret what happened in Rome, and the way ...

Edward Stourton: 'A fuss', Mrs. Beckett? A fuss?

Beckett: I didn't say 'a fuss', did I?

Stourton: You said 'not making more and more of a fuss' about what happened last week. We're talking about the deaths of 60 people here.

Beckett: Yes, no no, I'm not talking about that. What I'm saying to you is let's concentrate less on the fact that there was not - or it looked as if there wasn't as much agreement in Rome as there actually was, and let's concentrate more on how to apply the pressure to get an agreement in New York this week. That's what we were working for in Rome, that what we tried to get in Rome, that's what we still have to achieve.

The Rome summit was on Wednesday. This interview was on Monday morning, ie 5 days later. At best, she's so disoriented she's losing track of time; at worst, she thought the Qana bombing (which was 1 day before the interview) was having a 'fuss' made over it. Either way, I don't think she's fit to be Foreign Secretary.

[malaise]

6. She's another sicko n/t