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France joined UN chief Annan in a call for an immediate ceasefire (Photo: Ulla Sandbæk)

Rome conference endorses UN force in Middle East

A high-profile international conference on the Middle East, attended by a top-level EU delegation, has under US pressure not called for an immediate ceasefire in the region - but has endorsed the idea of a peacekeeping force "under a UN mandate."

The extraordinary meeting in Rome, chaired by Italian foreign minister Massimo d'Alema, addressed the ongoing bloodshed between Israel and Islamist Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, with US foreign secretary Condoleezza Rice and UN secretary gene...

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France joined UN chief Annan in a call for an immediate ceasefire (Photo: Ulla Sandbæk)

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