Solana puts EU troops at heart of peace force

Europe will have to provide troops for a stabilisation force in the south of Lebanon as part of an agreement to end the conflict in the area, Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, said on 25 July 2006.

Council of the European Union: Press Release, 25.7.06: EU action in response to the crisis in Lebanon http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/er/90662.pdf

Council of the European Union: Press Release, 24.7.06: Summary of remarks to journalists by Javier Solana, EU High Representative for CFSP, and Saad Hariri Lebanon's parliamentary majority leader http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/discours/90660.pdf

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