Under pressure from U.S. and U.N. peace negotiators, diplomats temporarily halted the offensive Tuesday.

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The simmering guerilla campaign continued for 22 years, when South Africa agreed to end administration of the region under a U.N. peace plan.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- European Union leaders supported a U.N. peace initiative for Kosovo Wednesday, but they repeated that NATO's bombing campaign would stop only when Belgrade meets the alliance's key demands.

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When President Teddy Roosevelt brought the two parties together for peace talks in Portsmouth, N.

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It has authorized up to 300 monitors in Syria to monitor a cease-fire and the six-point peace plan of U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.

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In 1988, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. peacekeeping forces as a tribute to idealism, valor and sacrifice.

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Even when the U.N forces a peace treaty.

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The United States and NATO allies need China's support to get a possible peace agreement through the U.N.

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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.

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The U.S. had asked for peace, went to the U.N. time and again, asked Saddam to step aside.

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But Yugoslavia refused to withdraw without a U.N. resolution supporting the peace plan agreed to earlier by Belgrade.

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The cease-fire is part of a six-point peace plan laid out by U.N.

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She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it.

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Can U.N. monitors help forge peace in Syria?

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Cyprus came closest to a peace deal in 2004 when a U.N.

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The peace deal caused problems for the U.N. almost immediately.

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The text of the draft calls for the immediate implementation of a six-point peace plan, as put forward by U.N.

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The 1991 Paris Peace Agreement paved the way for the U.N.

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"All along we thought that's why they were here, " Kagame said, referring to the U.N. troops sent to monitor a peace agreement between the minority Tutsis and ruling Hutus.

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It also backs the U.N. monitoring mission to ensure that the peace plan, accepted by the government and opposition groups, is being followed.

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Shaaban reiterated a comment made by other Syrian officials, that Damascus still holds hope that the peace plan put forth by Arab League-U.N.

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At the same time, the U.N. must work hard at selling its peace plan to neighboring nations, so they will rein in their proxies in Afghanistan.

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The Bali meeting will be the first major conference of its kind since former Vice President Al Gore and a U.N. scientific council were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October for their environmental work.

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"The United Nations expects the autopsy to be followed by an independent and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Mr. Jaradat's death, the results of which should be made public as soon as possible, " Robert Serry, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said in a written statement.

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But there is no reason a small team, appointed by the U.N. and Jakarta and led by 1996 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, should not be allowed to attend as observers.

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Washington is supporting U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace initiative, which calls for a cease-fire and a political solution.

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At a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers Saturday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani said Annan's peace initiative should be placed under Chapter VII of the U.N. charter, Qatar's news agency reported Saturday.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at the U.N. promoting a plan for a conference on Middle East peace this fall.

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So some 11, 000 U.N. peacekeepers have been in there trying to keep the peace, but it just isn't holding.

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"The last thing the people of these two countries need is another war -- a war that could claim countless lives, destroy hope and ruin the prospects of peace and stability and prosperity of all Sudanese people, " U.N.

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