Saudi Arabia Asks Bush For Immediate Cease-Fire In Middle East Conflict

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Sunday, July 23, 2006
Saudis Ask Bush to Intervene in Mideast

WASHINGTON (AP) - Saudi Arabia asked President Bush on Sunday to
intervene in Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah in
Lebanon to stop the mounting deaths.

``We are requesting a cease-fire to allow for a cessation of
hostilities,'' Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said
after an Oval Office meeting with Bush.

Saud said he gave the president a letter from Saudi King
Abdullah asking that Bush help seek an immediate cease-fire in the
Middle East conflict.

Saud, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki
al-Faisal, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, chief of the Saudi
National Security Council, met with Bush for more than an hour
Sunday.

``I found the president very conscious of the destruction and
the bloodshed that the Lebanese are suffering,'' Saud said. ``His
commitment (is) to see the cessation of hostilities. I have heard
that from him personally, and that is why he is sending Ms. Rice to
work out the details.''

The White House had no immediate comment on the meeting.

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