France and the United States are working on a proposal for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon to allow negotiations after recent clashes killed over 600 people. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told the UN Security Council that the proposal would be released shortly and urged both sides to accept it without delay.
France’s foreign minister said Wednesday that his country and the United States are working on a proposal for a 21-day cease-fire “to allow for negotiations” in thethat has killed more than 600 people in Lebanon in recent days.
U.S. deputy ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood encouraged the council to support the diplomatic efforts but didn’t offer specifics about the plan. Blinken and other advisers to President Joe Biden have spent the past three days at and on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders in New York lobbying other countries to support the plan, according to U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic conversations.
An Israeli official said Netanyahu has given the green light to pursue a possible deal, but only if it includes the return of Israeli civilians to their homes. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing behind-the-scenes diplomacy. When asked about the possibility of a halt in the fighting taking effect Thursday, a Lebanese official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to share details with the media, said it was “not wishful thinking.”in an appearance on ABC’s “The View” that “an all-out war is possible” but said he thinks the opportunity also exists “to have a settlement that can fundamentally change the whole region.
The U.S. and other international mediators have tried and failed for months to broker a cease-fire in Gaza that also would release hostages held by Hamas.
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