Preliminary cease-fires have been reached with ethnic armies, and new laws allow for a more open economy.

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K., the precise result is a bit vague, since both wars ended in cease-fires negotiated by international mediators.

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Yet contrary to Bush's clear view on the matter, State Department officials work around the clock negotiating cease-fires.

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With the cease-fires and with, you know, the conflict effectively being over, I don't think the IRA would attack him.

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On Wednesday Bush explained that the relative level of violence is not a determinate of victory or defeat because the enemy can use cease-fires to rearm.

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Women from conflict areas made strong appeals for cease-fires and peace, and also used the occasion for intense political networking to seek reconciliation strategies and build bridges.

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Both sides declared cease-fires on Monday, and President Boris Trajkovski said he would consider upgrading the status of the ethnic Albanians, who account for nearly a third of Macedonia's two million people.

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Tentative moves to negotiate a lasting peace were dealt a blow when Eta carried out a deadly bomb attack at Madrid's international airport in 2006, but, after several stalled cease-fires, in 2012 it announced that it was ready to disband.

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