UNITED NATIONS - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Thursday there was no agreement yet on a resolution calling for an end to the fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah but that he hoped for one on Friday.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton (L) answers questions after meeting with delegations about the situation in Lebanon, outside the United Nations in New York, August 10, 2006. Hizbollah guerrillas fought Israeli troops who seized a key town in southeast Lebanon on Thursday, as the United States and France moved closer to a breakthrough in diplomatic efforts to end the four-week-old war. [Reuters]

"I have not at all given up on the prospect that we might yet vote tomorrow," Bolton told reporters after a day of talks. "We have not yet reached agreement but will continue to work on it and will continue to work on it this evening and meet again early tomorrow morning."