31.   Speaking to reporters on the flight to Brussels, Peres said achieving peace takes precedence over winning elections.

32.   Hussein said at the dinner that peace will take considerable adjustment for people in the region.

33.   The United States is urging the Taliban to reach out to the other warring factions in Afghanistan and form a representative government that would allow peace to take hold.

34.   Ogata, for her part, said that circumstances which favoured the granting of temporary protection were no longer present now that peace was taking hold.

35.   Preferring not to delve into the major issue of contention -- secession for Bougainville -- Chan said it was critical that peace should take hold.

36.   South Sulawesi governor Zainal Basri Palaguna, who is one of the mediators, also told SCTV that peace would take time.

37.   South Sulawesi governor Zainal Basri Palaguna, one of the mediators, also said peace would take time.