WORLD : U.N. Chief Prods Council on Lebanon
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar called today for an urgent Security Council meeting to halt the bloodshed in Lebanon, a U.N. spokesman announced.
The U.N. chief acted under a rarely invoked provision of the U.N. Charter that empowers him to draw the council’s attention to any matter threatening international peace and security.
A Security Council committee comprising Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia said July 31 that its peace-making efforts were deadlocked.
More than 100 people have died in Lebanon’s carnage in the last five days, and 15 Syrian soldiers were reported killed or wounded in tank battles on a new front north of Beirut today as Syrian forces probed the defenses of Lebanon’s besieged Christian enclave.
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