81.   The agreement marked a potentially important step in confidence building for the three warring parties.

82.   The Afghan government, a coalition of formerly warring parties, has told the United Nations not to send any women to Afghanistan in international delegations or as officials.

83.   The agreement was reached only after a day of negotiations between the top U.N. official in the former Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi, and the warring parties.

84.   The border has been a constant source of frustration for the UN since it instituted a weapons embargo on the warring parties in Bosnia.

85.   The Americans do not know how to rescue it, and wonder whether it is even worth trying until the warring parties have knocked some sense into one another.

86.   The cease-fire would be monitored by the United Nations, said Vershbow, but its success depends mainly on the voluntary good behavior of the warring parties themselves.

87.   The ceasefire, which went into effect one minute after midnight Thursday, is designed to last until the warring parties achieve a peace agreement.

88.   The cease-fire document is also vague about who must take the risk of enforcing peace by disarming the various warring parties.

89.   The combat force would implement a peace agreement that is expected to be negotiated by the warring parties next month.

90.   The decision opens the way for what promised to be very difficult peace talks among the warring parties.