ARABS-ISRAEL - May 20 - Mubarak Calls For World Intervention.Pres. Mubarak appeals for international intervention to bring an end to the bloodshed blood·shed n. The shedding of blood, especially the injury or killing of people. bloodshed Noun slaughter; killing Noun 1. in the PA and Israel. (This comes after leading Arab states suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. contacts with the Israeli government on May 19 at the emergency meeting in Cairo following Israel's use of F-16 aircraft to bomb Palestinian targets in the West Bank on May 18 which left 12 Palestinians dead - see last week's Recorder). He says: "Vengeance Vengeance Absalom kills half-brother, Amnon, for raping sister, Tamar. [O. T. will continue and the situation in the region will become more complicated if our countries don't intervene to persuade these people to calm things down". He says a Jordanian-Egyptian peace initiative is still alive but he warns that Israel's use of warplanes was counter-productive, saying that even if Yasser Arafat called on his people now to stop the violence, "no one would listen to him". Pres. Mubarak spoke to US Pres. Bush and UN Sec-Gen. Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. to discuss the worsening wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. Noun 1. worsening - process of changing to an inferior state decline in quality, deterioration, declension crisis. The EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is due to visit Cairo as part of regional tour to try to end the violence. |
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