11.   The release of the detainees was one of the stipulations issued in a ceasefire offer made to the Krahn leaders on Friday, which they accepted.

12.   The southerners made a new ceasefire offer on Sunday, proposing a national unity government.

13.   Top separatist commanders said Chechen forces would ignore the Russian ceasefire offer and keep fighting.

14.   Museveni dismissed the ceasefire offer and declared that he would continue to pursue the rebels.

15.   On Friday Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said the Serbs had turned down the ceasefire offer.

16.   On Thursday, the KDP accepted a ceasefire offer from the PUK.

17.   Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said during a visit here Wednesday that Khartoum has extended an unconditional ceasefire offer to rebels in the south of the country.

18.   Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said on a visit to Nairobi earlier in the day that Khartoum has made an unconditional ceasefire offer to the southern rebels.

19.   The ceasefire offer had been made at talks with the Serbs at Sarajevo airport Friday morning with Bosnian premier Haris Silajdzic.

20.   The government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has welcomed the ceasefire offer by the guerrillas but has not officially agreed to reciprocate the truce.