21.   There was talk of signing a joint peace declaration with the North, formally ending hostilities decades after the end of their civil war.

22.   With the exhibit now over, City Hall professes to be pleased with a settlement that ends the hostilities.

23.   Pope John Paul II has appealed to Ecuador and Peru to end their hostilities and negotiate a peaceful end to their dispute, Vatican Radio said Monday.

24.   Pakistan denies backing the guerrillas and has offered to send its foreign minister to India for talks to end the hostilities.

25.   President Boris Yeltsin, who is seeking re-election in three months, is under increasing pressure to come up with a plan to end the hostilities in Chechnya.

26.   A general agreement to end hostilities has been signed by the government and the rebel soldiers.

27.   A European Union official chaired the talks in which the two rival leaders reportedly agreed to end hostilities, disarm and demobilize.

28.   A truce ended large-scale hostilities in December, but some radical rebel groups still refuse to recognize the peace deal.

29.   A top Kremlin official said Monday that his negotiations with a senior Chechen representative, aimed at ending hostilities in the separatist region, did not produce any breakthrough.

30.   A treaty to officially end World War II hostilities has never been signed because of the dispute over the Kurils.