UN says Lebanon truce may unravel
Look at where this word is used in the article below.
envisaged:
To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility: envisaged a world at peace.
By Laila BassamBEIRUT
(Reuters) - The United Nations said on Sunday the week-old truce between Israel and Hezbollah could easily collapse, a day after it condemned an Israeli raid on the guerrillas in Lebanon as a violation.
Senior U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said the truce that halted the 34-day war had provided the Lebanese government with a good chance to extend its authority over all of the country.
"We also do believe that unfortunately there is a tilting edge where things very easily, within the next weeks or months, can slide out of control," Roed-Larsen told reporters in Beirut.
A 30,000-strong force is envisaged for south Lebanon, made up of Lebanese and U.N. troops in equal number.U.N
. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Saturday Israel's commando raid on a Hizbollah stronghold deep inside Lebanon had violated the truce that came into effect on August 14.
Israel said the operation, in which commandos were airlifted into the area by helicopter, was defensive and designed to disrupt weapons supplies to Hizbollah from Syria and Iran.It
denied it had violated the U.N. truce resolution, which allows it to act in self-defense, and accused Hizbollah of a breach of the ceasefire by smuggling weapons. Continued...
If all they are going to conceive an image, especially as a future possibility, then what good are any of there resolutions? If this is how they, the U.N. handle there resolutions? To just get an image in their minds of what should be done. I say do away with the U.N. all together or get someone in there that will actually do something. Come on, how long can this go on? Isn't the U.N. seen as a joke in all the countries involved anyway?
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