31.   The United Nations General Assembly has asked all countries to observe a truce during the February Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

32.   The United Nations General Assembly has asked all countries to observe a truce during the February games.

33.   There are no direct Koranic prescriptions against fighting during Ramadan, although the holiday is apparently drawn from the period when pre-Islamic Arab tribes observed a truce.

34.   Foreign monitors from Norway have already moved into the northeast to observe the truce.

35.   Government forces and Tamil Tiger guerrillas are currently observing a truce ahead of possible peace talks.

36.   Government forces and the Tiger rebels are currently observing a truce and are expected to open political talks some time next month in Thailand.

37.   However, this is the first time that the two sidess are observing a truce monitored by foreigners.

38.   However, loyalist paramilitaries made it clear they were not going observe a truce in the immediate future.

39.   In Stockholm, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev urged both sides in breakaway Chechnya to observe the truce and warned a breakdown in the ceasefire would be a catastrophe.

40.   A United Nations agency has begun repatriating Sri Lankan refugees from neighbouring India as government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels observe a truce, officials said Thursday.