21.   They say they are making steady progress towards a peace settlement.

22.   They seem interested in a peace settlement and have begun putting out feelers.

23.   He also raised doubts about the American road map to a peace settlement.

24.   Our objective must be to secure a peace settlement.

25.   Saddam accepts Iranian terms for a peace settlement in the Iran-Iraq war.

26.   The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement.

27.   It would push a powerful Arab country back into implacable confrontation with Israel just when voices calling for a peace settlement are gaining strength throughout the Arab world.

28.   American diplomats have drawn up a map suggesting how much of Bosnia-Herzegovina might be handed over to the Serbs as part of a peace settlement.

29.   Among those likely to remain if NATO polices a peace settlement are rapid-reaction forces from Britain and France, who are only nominally under U.N. command.

30.   And outside Israel, at least, the notion persists that his agreement is critical to any peace settlement.