Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home.

A cease-fire was agreed upon between Israel and Hezbollah, which would be effective on April 27, 1996.

Aluma also signed what was probably the first written treaty or cease-fire in Chadian history ( like many cease-fires negotiated in the 1970s and 1980s, it was promptly broken ).

An armistice in 1953 committed both to a cease-fire, but the two countries remain officially at war, since a formal peace treaty was never signed.

Although Maoist-instigated intimidation and extortion continue, the killings have largely subsided since the cease-fire was announced.

Guerrilla activities continued until a United Nations-monitored cease-fire was implemented September 6, 1991 via the mission MINURSO.

Zambia was active in the Congolese peace effort after the signing of a cease-fire agreement in Lusaka in July and August 1999, although activity diminished considerably after the Joint Military Commission tasked with implementing the ceasefire relocated to Kinshasa in September 2001.

** In Namibia, fighting erupts between SWAPO guerillas and the South West African Police, on the day that a cease-fire was supposed to end the South African Border War according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 435.

Sassou Nguesso proclaimed himself President on October 25, 1997, but Militia forces loyal to Lissouba continued a guerrilla war, the vital Congo-Ocean Railway from the coastal city of Pointe-Noire was cut, and Brazzaville was heavily damaged before a cease-fire was agreed in December 1999.

Le Pen was then sent to Suez in 1956, but arrived only after the cease-fire.

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the city was defended by the Iraqi Army, then captured briefly by the forces from Israel's Carmeli Brigade during the " Ten Days ' fighting " following the cancellation of the first cease-fire.

Four thousand families were reported displaced by the fighting that followed, which was ended by a cease-fire agreement signed on July 10 and July 11.

A cease-fire was arranged on the night of 18 July ; it took full effect only on 20 July.

The transition got off to a shaky start because, contrary to SWAPO President Sam Nujoma's written assurances to the UN Secretary General to abide by a cease-fire and repatriate only unarmed Namibians, it was alleged that approximately 2, 000 armed members of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) SWAPO's military wing, crossed the border from Angola in an apparent attempt to establish a military presence in northern Namibia.

Its primary task was providing the military command structure to the peace keeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peace keepers to observe and maintain the cease-fire, and as may be necessary in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements.

The agreement was ratified in January 1948 and recognised a cease-fire along the so-called ' Van Mook line '; an artificial line which connected the most advanced Dutch positions.

Bolivia invaded in July 1932 and, despite its legitimate claim to what historically had been its territory, its government's ties to Standard Oil of New Jersey ( with whom the Argentine government was in dispute over its alleged pirating of oil in Salta Province ) led Buenos Aires to withhold diplomatic efforts until, in June 1935, a cease-fire was signed.

It was thought that Minh would be able to negotiate a cease-fire due to his policy stance, but the communists were on the verge of gaining absolute power, so they pushed on.

Resistance continued until 1995 when NMSP and SLORC agreed a cease-fire and, in 1996, the Mon Unity League was founded.

Since 1989, when the cease-fire was first concluded, the movement has stated it will pursue its goal of Western Sahara's independence by peaceful means as long as Morocco complies with the cease-fire conditions, which include arranging a referendum on independence, while reserving the right to resume armed struggle if terms are objectively breached, for example, if the referendum is not conducted.

Nevertheless, after 3 years of fighting and multiple prior " cease-fires ," the government and the RPF signed a " final " cease-fire agreement in August 1993, known as the Arusha Accords, in order to form a power sharing government, a plan which immediately ran into problems.

* At Arusha, Tanzania, President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Hutu insurgents Forces for the Defense of Democracy ( FDD ), signed a cease-fire accord.

Shortly after the Paris Peace Accords ended US involvement in the Vietnam war, the Pathet Lao and the government of Laos signed a cease-fire agreement, the Vientiane Treaty, in February 1973.

After two decades of fighting and four failed tries at peace talks, including the unsuccessful deployment of the Indian Army, the Indian Peace Keeping Force from 1987 to 1990, a lasting negotiated settlement to the conflict appeared possible when a cease-fire was declared in December 2001, and a ceasefire agreement signed with international mediation in 2002.

In a radio broadcast to the Romanian nation and army on the night of 23 August King Michael issued a cease-fire, proclaimed Romania's loyalty to the Allies, announced the acceptance of an armistice ( to be signed on September 12 ) offered by Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR, and declared war on Germany.

Indeed, the transitional government that ruled the country from the cease-fire agreement ( signed in Lusaka on 7 September 1974 ) to independence ( set for 25 June of the following year ) acted in a very conciliatory fashion.

During his speech to the troops, Bush said ," Fifty-five years have passed since the guns went quiet and the cease-fire was signed on this peninsula, and since that time our forces have kept the peace.

After this failure, on 18 March 1962, de Gaulle and the FLN signed a cease-fire agreement, the Évian accords, and held a referendum.

The League negotiated a cease-fire, signed on October 7, 1920, placing the city of Vilnius in Lithuania.

The war for independence continued until March 1962, when the French government finally signed the Évian Accords, a cease-fire agreement with the FLN.

After the cease-fire agreement between Finland and the USSR was signed in Moscow on 4 September 1944, Zhdanov directed the Allied Control Commission in Finland until the Paris peace treaty of 1947.

On June 23, 1865, following the Battle of Doaksville, at Fort Towson in the Choctaw Nation, Watie signed a cease-fire agreement with Union representatives for his command, the First Indian Brigade of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi.

Numerous cease-fire agreements were signed, and breached again when one of the sides felt it was to their advantage.

* a cease-fire agreement signed by the parties

It was inconclusive, and before the reinforced Czech forces could resume the attack on the town, they were pressed by Entente to stop operations and a cease-fire was signed on 3 February.

After the fight near Skoczów a cease-fire was reached, signed in Paris on 3 February 1919.

After losing more than half his force killed and captured, Whitelock signed a cease-fire and left for Great Britain.

In December 1944 the Westminsters took part in the operations to quell a Communist uprising in the Greek capital of Athens, which was successfully quelled, and a cease-fire was signed on 11 January 1945.

On September 26, 1940, Japanese troops landed in Haiphong, violating a cease-fire which had been signed only the previous day.

In April 1975, two years after the Americans signed a cease-fire accord with Vietnam, North Vietnamese troops spread through the South.

The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the cease-fire by the international control commission before participating in the Geneva conference.

* 1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.

In June 1982, Saddam Hussein ordered most of the Iraqi units to withdraw from Iranian territory ; after that time, the Baathist government tried to obtain a cease-fire based on a return of all armed personnel to the international borders that prevailed as of September 21, 1979.

This heightened tension between Lithuania and Poland and led to fears that they would resume the Polish – Lithuanian War, and on 7 October 1920, the League negotiated the Suwałki Agreement establishing a cease-fire and a demarcation line between the two nations.

After a joint NATO-Serb crackdown on Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo, European Union ( EU ) officials were able to negotiate a cease-fire in June.

In 1979, Polisario broke off the cease-fire and unleashed a string of new attacks on military and government targets.

In 1988, Morocco and the Polisario Front finally agreed on a United Nations ( UN ) peace plan, and a cease-fire and settlement plan went into effect in 1991.

Subsequent meetings of an OAU Implementation Committee proposed a cease-fire, a UN peacekeeping force, and an interim administration to assist with an OAU-UN-supervised referendum on the issue of independence or annexation.

A UN-brokered cease-fire and settlement plan went into effect on September 6, 1991.

In 1978 the army seized control of the Mauritanian government and Polisario declared a cease-fire, on the assumption that Mauritania would withdraw unconditionally.

In 1991 Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed on a UN-backed cease-fire in the Settlement Plan.

The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.

No fighting occurred along the 1967 Jordan River cease-fire line during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but Jordan sent a brigade to Syria to fight Israeli units on Syrian territory.

Despite the Emperor ’ s abdication, irregular warfare continued along the eastern borders and on the outskirts of Paris until the signing of a cease-fire on 4 July.

The Organization of American States negotiated a cease-fire which took effect on 20 July, with the Salvadoran troops withdrawn in early August.