41.   U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has been most prominent among a group of distinguished diplomats who have tried to broker a truce to the Israeli-Palestinian bloodletting.

42.   Zinni was called back to Washington after he was unable to broker a truce during three weeks of negotiations.

43.   Fernandes also said India would ponder a Hurriyat request to allow its leaders to travel to Pakistani-administered Kashmir to broker a truce with the rebels.

44.   He confirmed he was sending envoys to the region in an urgent bid to try to broker a truce.

45.   He will also meet separately with PUK officials in a bid to broker a truce.

46.   But a defence ministry delegation from Kabul had brokered a truce between the rival forces, he added.

47.   The resignation triggered a bitter factional brawl within the branch, but efforts by Howard to broker a truce have so far been frustrated by Crichton-Browne supporters.

48.   The truce was brokered during a three-day mediation mission by former US president Jimmy Carter on Monday and Tuesday .

49.   The truce was brokered during a three-day mediation mission by former US president Jimmy Carter on Monday and Tuesday.

50.   Zinni has been in the region since the end of November trying desperately to broker a truce between Palestinians and Israelis.