Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate…

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Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions.

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Calls upon the President to: (1) appeal to all sides in the current Middle East crisis for an immediate cessation of violence; (2) commit U.S. diplomats to multiparty negotiations with no preconditions; and (3) send a high-level diplomatic mission to the region to facilitate such negotiations.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jul 19, 2006

Urges such negotiations to begin as soon as possible, including delegations from the governments of Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA), Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.

Supports an international peacekeeping mission to southern Lebanon to prevent cross-border skirmishes during such negotiations.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

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Official title: Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions.

Latest action (Jul 19, 2006): Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

Policy area: International Affairs · Origin: House · Introduced: Jul 19, 2006

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.