41.   Blair appealed to the IRA, which wants to reunite Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic in the South, for an immediate ceasefire.

42.   Both the United Nations and Arab states merely limited themselves to calls for an immediate ceasefire.

43.   Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiev said Saturday he would demand agreement on an immediate ceasefire in Chechnya at the start of talks with President Boris Yeltsin.

44.   Ciller said Turkey was in constant contact with the United States, which has called on the two Kurdish groups to agree to an immediate ceasefire.

45.   Earlier they warned the worsening civil war in Yemen threatened the stability of their nations and called for an immediate ceasefire.

46.   Early Saturday, a report in London by the BBC teletext service said the warring factions had agreed on an immediate ceasefire after talks with Ghanaian mediators.

47.   Despite UN calls for an immediate ceasefire, mortar fire from hills around Gisenyi, just over the border with Zaire, grew louder as the morning passed.

48.   Earlier in New York, the UN Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire but refrained from condemning Israel.

49.   Egypt has vehemently condemned the attacks on Lebanon and called for an immediate ceasefire.

50.   Earlier Monday presidential spokeswoman Catherine Colonna called for an immediate ceasefire in fighting between Zairean troops and Tutsi rebels.