1.   Speaking later on Spanish television, he downplayed reports that ETA might be close to calling a ceasefire.

2.   Feuding Kurdish factions in northern Iraq have called a ceasefire and set up a joint body to implement the agreement, the Iraqi opposition said Saturday.

3.   He explained that Britain would want hard evidence once a fresh ceasefire had been called that the IRA had abandoned the armed struggle for good.

4.   He said the Russian leadership should show goodwill by calling a ceasefire, withdrawing its troops and starting negotiations towards a treaty with Chechnya.

5.   Hopes for peace were raised slightly when the RUF called a ceasefire last Sunday and in a turnabout, said they are willing to talk to Kabbah.

6.   However the political wing of the IRA, Sinn Fein, was barred from the talks because Irish Republican Army paramilitaries had refused to call a ceasefire.

7.   In Geneva, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the warring sides to call a ceasefire after a preliminary round of talks in Pretoria ended inconclusively.

8.   A ceasefire was called Friday in Bihac in northwestern Bosnia but there was no immediate confirmation that Serb forces had ceased their progression, UN officials said in Sarajevo.

9.   A ceasefire could be called next week, he added.

10.   A week after Bio came to power, the RUF called a ceasefire and dropped all preconditions for holding peace talks.