11.   World religious leaders who signed a Mideast peace declaration are working to persuade militants to change their points of view, a senior church official said Wednesday.

12.   An Iranian newspaper called Sunday for the government to scale down its diplomatic ties with Jordan, which had betrayed Islam by signing a peace declaration with Israel.

13.   Arafat has been angered that Jordan was guaranteed a special role over the Islamic sites in Jerusalem in the Israel-Jordan peace declaration two weeks ago.

14.   Arafat was angry that Jordan was guaranteed a special role over the Islamic sites in Jerusalem in the Israel-Jordan peace declaration.

15.   The row over Jerusalem has rumbled on since Jordan and Israel signed a peace declaration last July.

16.   Jordan has also signed a peace declaration with Israel following the launch of Palestinian self-rule under the autonomy deal signed last September.

17.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin arrived back in Israel Wednesday after a four-day stay in Washington where he signed an historic peace declaration with King Hussein of Jordan.

18.   Russian envoy Victor Possuvaliuk welcomed Tuesday the recent Israel-Jordan peace declaration as an important step towards ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.

19.   The announcement came a month after Jordan signed a peace declaration with Israel and follows the launch of Palestinian self-rule in May.

20.   The Anglo-Irish peace declaration of last December proposed to include Sinn Fein in constitutional talks for the first time if the IRA renounced violence for three months.