An astute use of this week's events and Annan's call to unified action could lead to a Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire and peace conference within 30 days.
U.S. officials have started to downplay expectations for Rice's trip as long as there is no resolution to what they call this internal contradiction in Palestinian politics.
The UN is to endeavor to have the United Nations adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia and to call upon all states to enact laws countering it, including deterrent punishment.
If that fails to achieve a resolution, Russia may call for a summit of world leaders on the Kosovo conflict.
The resolution did not call for the case to be referred to the UN Security Council, with a view to economic sanctions being imposed, but diplomats said this could happen as early as September if Iran refused to comply.
That resolution probably would drop previous attempts to call for U.N. monitors to the region, which Israel has opposed.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) announced he is preparing a Senate resolution that will call on Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to look into the Democratic fund-raising.
While the resolution doesn't call for Mr. Assad to step aside as an earlier Arab League plan does, it backs Mr. Annan's call for the Syrian president to appoint a mediator to negotiate with the opposition, according to British ambassador Mark Lyall Grant.
If the parties have not found a resolution by 12 August, the British Government will have to either suspend the assembly or call an assembly election.
America's draft resolution, while not specifying the possible sanctions, does call for an immediate ban on weapons sales to any armed group in Darfur.
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