Word: rice
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...Sunday, a few hours after Rice?s press conference, more bad news arrived when U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced that the Israeli Defense Ministry had asked U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon to evacuate two more villages before sunset, suggesting they would meet Qana?s fate.? By Sunday evening, Rice had apparently decided that she had done all she could do in Jerusalem and made it known she was heading back to Washington Monday morning...
...depth of Rice?s quandary had already been coming through in subtle ways. At times, she seemed to cling to dry diplomatic jargon. ?We?re making real progress on a political framework,? she said at one point.? At another, she said, ?We also have to realize that we cannot have a? circumstance in which there is a return to the status quo ante.? ?Now, I think the Security Council will take this up,? Rice said, apparently attempting to look forward to the infamously dilatory world of U.N. diplomacy in positive terms. ?We want the Security Council to take...
...reality for Rice, however, is the long hours she?s keeping in an infinity loop of meetings, and the little she has to show for them. At one point in the Sunday press conference, she admitted that, ? If there is any way humanly, to accelerate our efforts, I? would do it. But we are already doing really what is of the human limitation to try to get to an end of this conflict...
...hard to see how Rice can make any more progress here toward her goal of a compreshensive agreement between the Israeli and Lebanese governments, which include cessation of hostilities, the deployment of the Lebanese Army backed by a ?robust? international force to secure the border with israel and push Hizballah back so that its short range rockets cannot strike Israel...
...position of the government on the underlying issues.? However, the Qana incident was a ?war crime.? Said Chatah, ?You cannot fight a war by killing civilians. We want this to end. And it can end. Our plan is still the way to end it.? As for Rice?s work, he says, ?She is speaking of a ceasefire as an urgent goal but we are saying it should be an immediate goal.? In Lebanon, the Health Ministry estimated the toll for 19 days of war at 750 dead and 2,000 wounded...