1.   Wilson described the talks as splendid and said that all sides had engaged in hard, thorough and committed work but all parties observed diplomatic silence on details.

2.   But while they issued a statement calling on all parties to observe a cease-fire agreement, no new plan on ending the war emerged.

3.   His amendment would require the parties to observe the limits in order to qualify for discounted television rates for their commercials.

4.   At the same time, the secretaries general of NATO and the United Nations issued a joint statement calling on all parties to observe a cease-fire.

5.   Since the accord was signed last December, the former warring parties have observed the cease-fire.

6.   Since the Dayton accord was signed last December, the former warring parties have observed the cease-fire.

7.   The boycott was also observed by parties that support Burundian President Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi.

8.   Even the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party observed the day.

9.   Local MQM leader Shoaib Bukhari said the party would observe Monday as a day of mourning for five members killed in the fresh wave of violence.