11.   The prolonged ceasefire was agreed during negotiations between Chechen military commander Aslan Maskhadov and the commander of Russian forces in Chechnya, General Anatoly Kulikov.

12.   The southerners also charged that the northern team had no mandate to agree a ceasefire.

13.   The two Chechen ministers met Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in Moscow last Tuesday and said afterwards that a ceasefire had been agreed in principle.

14.   The two sides had agreed a ceasefire in June, but three rounds of peace talks stalled.

15.   The Thai government is pressing the Mon to agree a ceasefire with Rangoon so it can start repatriating Mon refugees on Thai territory.

16.   Under the peace process, a ceasefire was agreed and PNG set up the Bougainville Transitional Government, a provincial-style government within PNG under Premier Theodore Miriung.

17.   Unions have not yet agreed the ceasefire however.

18.   US President Bill Clinton said Friday he was hopeful that Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement could agree a ceasefire in southern Lebanon.

19.   Meanwhile, officials in Poipet said the Cambodian government had agreed ceasefire terms with the representatives of four Khmer Rouge divisions who had split with their hardline leaders.

20.   Russian and Chechen commanders have agreed a ceasefire but it has been repeatedly violated by both sides.