International experts have promised Lebanon urgent help in cleaning up a massive Mediterranean oil spill caused by Israeli bombing of a power plant, but said the scale of the environmental threat remained unknown.Senior officials from the United Nations, the European Union and regional states meeting in the Greek port city of Piraeus unveiled a plan to clean up oil-clogged parts of the Lebanese coastline. It is expected the operation will cost over $64 million dollars)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner told a news conference, Israel was not represented at the meeting, but is in close contact with UNEP on the issue, Steiner said.
