High-Level Effort Begins Today to Enforce Cease-Fire in Lebanon
A team of six mediators struggling to bring peace to Lebanon will launch a high-level Arab diplomatic effort today to try to enforce a cease-fire and deploy truce observers.
The foreign ministers of Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait, Sudan, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates are following up an Arab League initiative to end some of the heaviest shelling in Lebanon’s civil war and secure a political settlement.
They were to join the other Arab League foreign ministers later today in two days of preparations for an emergency summit covering Lebanon, Palestine and Middle East peace moves.
The kings, presidents and emirs are also expected to give their seal of approval to the two-state solution adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organization at a landmark session of the Palestine National Council in Algiers last November.
In Lebanon, a 10-day-old cease-fire mediated by the league has largely held after two months of savage battles between the mainly Christian troops of the army commander, Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun, and Syrian forces and their Muslim and leftist allies.
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