31.   The peace process has stalled over the issue of disarmament.

32.   The peace process stalled over demands by Britain and Northern Ireland Protestants that the IRA start disarming before all-party talks.

33.   But the peace process has stalled on increasing unrest among troops of the former warring parties who are due to form a joint army.

34.   But the process has stalled in a climate of mutual distrust.

35.   But the process stalled when Gligorov was seriously injured in a car bomb attack on his return to Skopje.

36.   But the inter-Korean rapprochement process stalled last year with the Stalinist North citing a US hostile policy under President George W. Bush.

37.   But the process stalled in a climate of mutual distrust.

38.   The peace process has stalled in recent weeks amid a continuing row between Israel and the Palestinians over Israeli plans to build another Jewish settlement in Arab east Jerusalem.