Cease fire option making progress?

thankyougrandma

It's in french, haven't find any link in english but it quote a parliament Hezbollah member, Hussein Haj Hassan, saying that Hezbollah were agreeing with an all out cease fire without any condition, then start the discussion for the release of the kidnap soldiers. Although Hezbollah don't want a cease fire with conditions, those impose by Condeleza Rice, so it seem like if nothing will happen, anyone heard anything about this?

Proche-Orient
Le Hezbollah serait prêt à un cessez-le-feu sans condition
Associated Press (AP)
24/07/2006 13h47
http://www2.canoe.com/infos/international/archives/2006/07/20060724-134701.html

binauralsounds

to say it like others have said it.. If CEASE FIRES worked, the middle east would be the most peaceful place on the planet!!!!!

thankyougrandma

So Hezbollah are ready to a cease fire, but only if it's with no conditions, so they rejected current proposition. At least they're "talking" now...

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Hezbollah rejects ceasefire proposals by foreign envoys
Associated Press

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah on Monday dismissed international ceasefire proposals as “Israeli conditions,” accusing foreign envoys of allowing Israel time to continue its military offensive to force Lebanon into submission.

“The international envoys have conveyed Israeli conditions. These conditions are rejected,” said Hezbollah legislator Hussein Haj Hassan. “We accept what secures our country's interest and pride and dignity and not to submit to Israeli conditions,” he said on al-Jazeera television late Monday.

He spoke after UN and European Union envoys as well as France's prime minister discussed with Lebanon's government ways to end the six-day-old ferocious fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas. Israel has demanded the guerrillas release two Israeli soldiers they captured last Wednesday and pull far back from the border as conditions for any ceasefire.

Hezbollah's Al-Manar television, in its prime news bulletin presentation, accused the envoys of coming to Lebanon for a “clear-cut objective to give more time for enemy aircraft to carry out more destruction and devastation so that someone can raise the banner of surrender.”

Hezbollah said it wanted an unconditional ceasefire. According to Al-Manar, which has become the guerrillas main window to the outside world after its top leaders have gone into hiding because of the Israeli onslaught on their offices and homes, Hezbollah pledged to continue firing rockets on Israel and to target more cities deeper in that country.

“This is the beginning. Beware of our cyclone. Today it's Haifa. Tomorrow it's Haifa, Acre and what's beyond and farther than Haifa after all the red lines have been shattered,” the news announcer said on al-Manar, referring to Hezbollah's threat to strike deeper into Israel after hitting Israel's coastal cities.

Israeli officials have warned Hezbollah has Iranian-supplied missiles that could hit Tel Aviv, south of Haifa and Israel's largest metropolis.

The Hezbollah broadcast said the foreign envoys' proposals were to push the guerrillas away from the border, deploy the Lebanese national army and hand over the captive Israeli soldiers to the Lebanese government.

Haj Hassan, the Hezbollah legislator, outlined Hezbollah's terms for ending the fighting. “We want a ceasefire without conditions and then indirect negotiations that will lead to an exchange of prisoners. This is what we can accept. Anything else will be Israeli conditions that can never be accepted,” he told al-Jazeera.

The besieged Lebanese capital has witnessed diplomatic activity in the last two days.

A senior UN envoy and French Premier Dominique De Villepin met separately with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora Monday. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana held talks with the prime minister on Sunday.

The talks centred on efforts to arrange an immediate ceasefire to end six days of devastating Israeli air strikes on Lebanon's infrastructure and Hezbollah positions and guerrilla rocket attacks on Israel that have killed more than 200 people.

Vijay Nambiar, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special political adviser, said after the talks that he will travel to Israel to present its leaders with “concrete ideas” on ending the fighting, sparked by Hezbollah's capture of the Israeli soldiers. He did not elaborate on the ideas.

Mr. Nambiar, leading a UN team, has also called for the release of captured Israeli soldiers, the protection of civilians and infrastructure and expressed support for Lebanon's appeal for a ceasefire.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060717.whezbollah0717./BNStory/Front