11.   Thorvald Stoltenberg said he was confident the peace deal signed last week would stick as long as foreign troops were in the country to prevent renewed hostilities.

12.   In the same year the United States sent a small peacekeeping force to prevent hostilities in ex-Yugoslavia spreading to Macedonia.

13.   Troops have been dispatched to the area to prevent further hostilities, which Covarrubias said appeared to have been stoked by a territorial dispute over logging concessions.

14.   President Gloria Arroyo later agreed to resume negotiations after both sides agreed to restrain their forces and prevent further hostilities.