Church bells from the city's Catholic Cathedral rang out across the capital, and prayers of peace were also said at the central mosque to mark the talks.
BBC: Leaders at prayer in Asmara (pic: Jorge Aramburu/UNMEE)
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers from the Economic Community of Central African States will meet Tuesday in the Gabon capital of Libreville to set an agenda for peace talks, said Placide Ibouanga Ndinga, spokesman for the Economic Community.
The SLA is boycotting the current round of Darfur peace talks being chaired by the Qataris in their capital, Doha, while LJM, a coalition of several minor rebel movements, is the only rebel group attending the talks with representatives from the Sudanese government.
The group also fingered Mr Ntaganda's old boss, a dynamic former rebel leader, Laurent Nkunda, who is supposed to be under house arrest in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, as part of the 2009 peace deal.
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Alas, the breakdown of the peace process has left the region with nothing to show for its capital letters but a hefty helping of alphabet soup.
In January, they signed a peace deal in Libreville, the capital of the neighboring nation of Gabon, agreeing to allow Bozize to carry out the last three years of his term, in return for a number of concessions.
The peace interest arises primarily in the exporters of goods and capital.
Leading up to this election, Kenyans have pledged peace, and candidates held a massive rally in the capital of Nairobi last month and vowed to address any election disputes in court.
The latest round of peace talks is set to start on Thursday in the Cuban capital, Havana.
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Nearly four years after a peace was signed in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, wide tracts of the country remain no-go areas, and at least 1m Angolans are still listed as displaced.
Kshetrimayum Onil, a trustee of Just Peace Foundation, a non-governmental organisation based in the state capital, Imphal, told the BBC that he sent an e-mail to Ripley's site about Ms Chanu's struggle in mid-March.
Sierra Leoneans may yearn for peace, but many, particularly in the capital, are frightened by what they hear of the deal.
Mr Abbas for his part pointedly hosted a new pro-peace organisation of Israeli businessmen and public figures in Ramallah, the Palestinians' administrative capital, on April 28th, the day after the reconciliation agreement was announced.
The presidents of the EU's three main institutions have collected the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway's capital Oslo.
The foreign ministers from the Economic Community of Central African States will meet Tuesday in Gabon's capital, Libreville, to set an agency for peace talks, said Placide Ibouanga Ndinga, a spokesman for the group.
After intense fighting between rebel forces and Charles Taylor's regime in the suburbs of Monrovia, Liberia's capital, the two sides agreed to a ceasefire, paving the way for peace talks in neighbouring Ghana to resume.
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