31.   Foreign Minister Shimon Peres argued that holding onto the prisoners was unjustifiable when Israel was negotiating peace with their former guerrilla commanders.

32.   IGAD, for years, has been negotiating inconclusive peace talks between the government and SPLA.

33.   Important players in negotiating peace, but may not win enough votes to get into negotiations.

34.   Israel has said Syria -- the main power broker in Lebanon -- should rein in the guerrillas if it is serious about negotiating peace.

35.   Israel has peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, an autonomy agreement with the Palestinians and is negotiating peace with Syria.

36.   On Friday, Fujimori was headed to Paraguay to meet with new Ecuadorean President Jamil Mahuad, who took office Monday and has expressed an interest in negotiating peace.

37.   Palestinians, meanwhile, say Sharon is bent on crushing them militarily and they hold out no hope of negotiating peace with him.

38.   Prime Minister P.J. Patterson remembered Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, shot by an assassin Saturday, as a diplomat devoted to negotiating peace in the Middle East.

39.   Sary broke with Pol Pot last month and formed a smaller Khmer Rouge faction, which has been negotiating peace.

40.   Several attempts at negotiating peace with the rebels have floundered, but the cease-fire has remained in effect.