11.   Attempts by U.S. and African leaders to broker peace have failed, though fighting has subsided with the rainy season.

12.   Attempts by both Pakistan and the United Nations to broker peace have failed.

13.   Attempts by a Commonwealth envoy, Sir Ninian Stephen, to broker peace, failed last year after three months of talks.

14.   Attempts by the U.S. and African leaders to broker peace have failed, though fighting has subsided with the rainy season.

15.   Holbrooke, who helped broker peace in Bosnia, grimly compared the worsening situation in the secessionist province of Serbia to that in Bosnia before the Dayton accord.

16.   Jordan was unable to broker peace and quit shortly afterward.

17.   New Delhi has resisted any attempts to broker peace.

18.   On Wednesday, Pakistan said it launched renewed peace efforts and held talks with the Afghan opposition in a bid to broker peace in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

19.   Repeated efforts by U.S. and African officials to broker peace have failed.

20.   Previous efforts to broker peace by the OAU, Rwanda and the United States have failed.