1.   Somali elders and others had failed in their attempts to broker a ceasefire between forces supporting interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed and those supporting Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid.

2.   By then, however, the invaders had already occupied a third of the state -- which they still hold -- before the UN brokered a ceasefire.

3.   But Western diplomats scrambled to broker a ceasefire around Bihac.

4.   The ceasefire was brokered by a delegation from the Committee of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, or CPLP, and negotiated on the frigate.

5.   The United States, Russia and France are all trying to broker a ceasefire in the troubled region.

6.   The United Nations on Monday brokered a ceasefire that amounted to the surrender of the last rebel Serb forces battling Croatian troops.

7.   The United States, Russia and France are facing that fact this week as they try to broker a ceasefire in the troubled region.

8.   France has asked Aznar and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to travel to the Middle East to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians.

9.   French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette left Syria for Israel on Tuesday to pursue intensive negotiations to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

10.   He added that he had urged Zinni to return to the region in a bid to broker a ceasefire.