21.   It helped broker an end to a November standoff over U.N. weapons inspections, promising Iraq it would work toward lifting economic sanctions.

22.   Kamkoff said he was trying to broker an end to the dispute.

23.   Kinkel thanked Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov for helping broker an end to the standoff.

24.   Marc Ravalomanana and Didier Ratsiraka held talks separately with regional heads of state helping broker an end to the conflict when they arrived in Senegal on Saturday.

25.   Regional and international mediators have tried to broker an end to the hostilities, warning that the war could destabilize the entire region.

26.   Russia, which brokered an end to the last U.N.-Iraq crisis, sent envoy Viktor Posuvalyuk for talks Monday with Saddam and other Iraqi officials.

27.   The anti-government campaign intensified after President Abdur Rahman Biswas failed to broker an end to the power struggle.

28.   The Iran News, an English-language newspaper that often reflects government views, accused the West of frustrating Muslim efforts to broker an end to the conflict.

29.   The militia recently closed four of six U.N. political offices in the country to help broker an end to the civil war.

30.   He added that it was up to the United states to broker an end to the violence.