21.   The two leaders met secretly in Washington to smooth away any obstacles to the peace agreement.

22.   The peace agreement has introduced a feeling of optimism here.

23.   Tonight, the peace agreement lies in tatters.

24.   Leaders of some rival factions signed a peace agreement last week.

25.   Very little has been achieved in the implementation of the peace agreement signed last January.

26.   The peace agreement has at least temporarily halted the civil war.

27.   The army insisted that a viable peace agreement could only come with the laying down of LTTE arms.

28.   It was hoped that the negotiations would produce a preliminary drafting of a conclusive peace agreement.

29.   July was a month of hectic diplomatic activity following the partial peace agreement reached by the warring Cambodian factions in Pattaya, Thailand, in late June.