It was during last year's election campaign that Mr Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) proposed the event to mark the day in 1952 when the San Francisco Peace Treaty took effect, formally ending WWII and the allied occupation.
But none of them will have much effect without peace and a proper government.
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However, there have been factors which influenced its commercial performance including the uncertainty of the Northern Ireland peace process and its effect on inward tourism over the last three years.
Mr Paisley, and the half of Mr Trimble's party that opposed the peace agreement, hoped that the marching stand-off would, in effect, force Tony Blair to renegotiate the peace deal.
If Mr Barak can bring home the draft peace agreement that eluded him and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, or even a less ambitious accord, providing Palestinian statehood but leaving the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees for further negotiation, the election would become, in effect, the referendum on peace that he promised.
It is simply irresponsible for President Clinton in a non- emergency situation and in the face of the expressed opposition of Congress to implicate the United States in such a "peace enforcement" mission -- the predictable effect of his decision to begin the immediate deployment of small numbers of American service personnel to Bosnia.
Mr Barak, the leader of the Labor Party, in effect acts as foreign minister for the peace talks while the man who holds the title, Avigdor Lieberman, has threatened to quit the government if the prime minister gives too much ground.
And that might have the happy side-effect of edging forward Northern Ireland's stalled peace process.
But a peace accord laboriously reached in early 1996 was never put into effect, and the talks consequently broken off have not been formally resumed.
The cease-fire went into effect April 12 and is part of a six-point peace plan negotiated by U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan.
We are trying to find a way to create peace and stability that will allow the kind of humanitarian assistance that's needed to take effect in that country.
Indeed, any peace and reconstruction process that is predicated on Mr Milosevic's co-operation has the side-effect of shoring up his authority, and this he is always keen to do.
This partial peace ended in 1997, when the federation declared a 17% pay rise for able seamen, to take effect in 2001.
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