1.   And what about your abandonment of the customary U.S. peacemaking role in the Middle East where relations between the Palestinians and Israelis are steadily deteriorating?

2.   After that agreement, Israeli officials voiced rare public thanks to Syria and Iran, and some have suggested that Schmidbauer could serve a broader peacemaking role.

3.   But Alvara must play his peacemaking role by e-mail and satellite phone in exile in Costa Rica.

4.   Opportunism aside, there is a real need for the administration to take on an active peacemaking role in the Mideast.

5.   Russia, which is now playing a central and constructive peacemaking role, seems willing to approve an adequately armed force under U.N. authority.

6.   Blair said he was not trying to supplant the U.S. peacemaking role in the region.

7.   But Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has now taken on a peacemaking role in a campaign to placate the west and get the sanctions lifted.

8.   Concerned about the recent escalation of violence in Kosovo, the three foreign ministers called for a more active peacemaking role of the countries in the region.

9.   EU diplomats acknowledged their ambitions were limited as the region awaits a more active U.S. peacemaking role.

10.   However EU diplomats acknowledged their ambitions were limited as the region awaits a more active U.S. peacemaking role.