11.   Nineteen parties signed the peace agreement brokered earlier this year by Nelson Mandela, the former South African president.

12.   The agreement is to take effect when it is formally signed by the parties in Paris in mid-December.

13.   The investor list notes that all the parties have signed a nondisclosure agreement.

14.   This month the warring parties signed an accord negotiated by Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke that laid the basis for a peace agreement.

15.   Yet the secret agreement, signed by Smith and Taylor the previous day, said its provisions would override any other contracts the parties had signed.

16.   Almost daily sporadic cease-fire violations have been reported since ethnic Albanian and Macedonian political parties signed a peace accord on Monday.

17.   Both parties signed the agreement separately and at different times so as not to run into each other, according to the officials.

18.   Both parties have signed a preliminary agreement, but no detailed discussions have yet taken place, he said.

19.   But the U.N. resolution says the end of the embargo is to begin only after the parties sign a peace agreement.

20.   But the U.N. resolution says the end of the embargo is to begin only after the warring parties sign a peace agreement.