Rice says working for today's vote on UN truce text

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (Reuters) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to the United Nations to meet with Secretary-General Kofi Annan and said she wanted a Friday vote on a UN resolution to end fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.

''We're working for a vote today,'' she told reporters upon arriving at UN headquarters.

Rice arrived in New York early today and held talks at her hotel with British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett.

Rice's spokesman, Sean McCormack, said earlier in Washington that the United States was ''pushing to get this done today. We think we should be able to. She (Rice) is here to close any differences on language and get a vote'' in the 15-nation UN Security Council.

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