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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9248

23 August 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lebanon
Meeting of Cops on Wednesday and EMPA bureau on Thursday - Italy prepared to head peace keeping force, requests for special foreign affairs meeting - Louis Michel refers to humanitarian crisis, Stavros Dimas in Athens, oil slick

Brussels, 22/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - Following the adoption of Resolution 1701 of the Security Council which opens the way to reinforcing Unifil in the Lebanon, the Finnish presidency of the Council of the EU has arranged a meeting for 23 August in Brussels, at the request, notably, of France and Italy, of the Political and Security Committee (Cops) at a senior official level, in an effort to check the willingness of Member States in the EU to support this reinforcement. In the meantime,...

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