Maintaining the ceasefires is clearly the priority for most of those who took part.
The European leaders had travelled to Israel to lend their support to the ceasefires.
Sporadic violence has erupted since both sides declared tentative ceasefires on 17 and 18 January.
Eleven out of twelve have reached ceasefires that open the door to more sustainable reconciliation.
Despite the declarations about ceasefires and the new willingness to negotiate, the fighting continues unabated.
It held out in the 1990s when several other groups signed ceasefires without demobilising their forces.
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When other paramilitaries began declaring ceasefires in 1994, the INLA did not follow suit until four years later.
For one thing, the 17 armed groups who have made ceasefires with the government are still holding their arms.
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After various peace initiatives and ceasefires failed, the government launched a final offensive.
The BBC's Rachel Harvey in Bangkok says that all talk of ceasefires and negotiation now appear to have been abandoned.
Also, they have aligned themselves, albeit inconclusively, with peaceful politics, and have given that quasi-commitment some credibility by their ceasefires.
He said a lot of these people were "kids" who had been very young when the loyalist paramilitaries called their ceasefires.
Richard Jameson is thought to have been shot by the Loyalist Volunteer Force, a dubious and late signatory to paramilitary ceasefires.
Petraeus spoke about the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who had called a series of ceasefires against U.S. troops during 2007 and 2008.
The government has undertaken a number of ceasefires with different ethnic groups.
After parleying to agree the terms of the ceasefires, most officers mingled with the enemy just as keenly as their men did.
"None of what is going on about ceasefires at the moment is anything to do with Sinn Fein or the ceasefire, " said Mr Livingstone.
Among unionists, maintaining the ceasefires was much more important than decommissioning.
Since 1992, he has proclaimed three ceasefires, the latest in September.
If the Independent Monitoring Commission checking on both republican and loyalist ceasefires reports in October that they have been observed, there could be an election next spring.
The SPLA and the government have for several years agreed to temporary ceasefires in limited areas of the conflict zone, to allow the passage of food aid.
Unfortunately, experience suggests the most likely outcome is yet more blundering in and out of ceasefires and abortive peace deals, while the region remains in grinding poverty.
As a stopgap measure, tenuous ceasefires can still be useful.
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The idea is to go beyond what many participants see as the male obsession with ceasefires and decommissioning of arms, and look at the need for accountability including womens' rights in post-conflict administrations.
Although Myanmar has negotiated ceasefires with some of the ethnic insurgents along the border, defence spending keeps climbing, partly because the government fears an uprising, like the one in 1988 that followed demonetisation.
He has been told, by the European Union and by Arab governments, that the only road to political and economic salvation is through local ceasefires coupled with genuine moves towards reforming his administration.
Yes they were rather informal but nevertheless I think that they all had their place in the jigsaw puzzle I suppose, that brought us to '94 and ceasefires and subsequently the Good Friday Agreement.
Nationalists were overwelmingly concerned with maintaining the ceasefires.
Although ceasefires and peace talks have failed before in the two-decade long war between the government and the Tamil minority, which lives mainly in the north and east, there are greater grounds for optimism than usual.
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