Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy met in Geneva with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to formally announce Israeli plans to pull its troops out of southern Lebanon. Levy said Israel is ready to cooperate with the United Nations to put a peacekeeping mechanism into place to avoid violence after the pullout.
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