Dean Yates
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/ 30 August 2006

Annan to press Israel to lift blockade

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge Israel to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon and discuss the deployment of UN peacekeepers when he meets Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday. Annan, in Jerusalem after visiting Lebanon, is trying to strengthen a two-week-old truce that ended a 34-day war between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group.