UN to suggest steps to ease Lebanon crisis

JERUSALEM, July 19: UN envoys will suggest the deployment of Lebanese troops in southern Lebanon and enlarging an international force there to try to end fighting between Israel and Hizbollah, diplomats said today.

They said the proposed steps would be presented to Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York following talks this week between the envoys and top Israeli and Lebanese officials.

But the Western diplomats said this did not mean they already had the agreement of Israel, Lebanon or Hizbollah on the measures to end the conflict.

REUTERS

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