The United Nations, the USA, the EU and Russia have called on Israel to retreat immediately from the occupied palestinian territories. In addition the quatuor requested an immediate halt of the hostilities in the middle east. UN general secretary Kofi Annan appealed on Wednesday on all the parties to conclude a cease fire. Annan was speaking at a press conference in Madrid after having conferred with foreign minister Colin Powell, his russian colleague Igor Iwanow, the spanish foreign minister Josep Piqué and Javier Solana from the EU.The quatuor appealed to the warring parties to implement immediately the middle east resolutions...