They came to monitor a ceasefire agreement which both the rebels and the government were violating.
On January 13th the government signed a ceasefire agreement with the Karen National Union.
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"Even if the government refuses to sign a ceasefire agreement we'll continue with the negotiations, " he added.
Mr Abbas says he hopes a ceasefire agreement can soon be reached with Hamas, one of the main militant groups.
Under the ceasefire agreement which ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq was obliged to end its chemical and biological weapons capacity.
"With the ceasefire agreement blown apart... no one can predict what will happen in this land from now on, " the mouthpiece said.
The EU says that Russia must observe the six point Georgian ceasefire agreement in full, withdrawing all troops to behind the lines occupied on August 7.
President Saakashvili signed the ceasefire agreement on Friday, after a meeting lasting more than four hours with visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
We know this will happen because we have already seen what happened with the last Iranian proxy that Israel signed a ceasefire agreement with.
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This dashed any faint hope that the ceasefire agreement the government and the Tigers signed in 2002, and which is still notionally in force, might yet be revived.
He claimed to have been sent to the district by Mullah Fazalullah to check that sharia was being followed, in accordance, he said, with the terms of ceasefire agreement.
In 2003, then Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri agreed that as part of a ceasefire agreement, the separatist Aceh province was allowed to institute Shariah law as the law of the province.
It was only in February that the government called off a ham-fisted four-month operation in Swat, and signed a ceasefire agreement with associates of the local Taliban's most prominent leader, Mullah Fazalullah.
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Kofi Annan, Brahimi's predecessor, negotiated an April 12 ceasefire agreement which led to a slight dip in the violence for a few days but saw fighting steadily escalate in the ensuing weeks.
"The important thing is that two of the armed groups signed a ceasefire agreement, laying the basis of us moving quicker to stopping the fight in Burundi, " he told the BBC Focus on Africa programme.
When Mr Wahid claimed that he had reached a ceasefire agreement with the exiled leader of a separatist group from the province of Aceh, it was discounted even before the rebel leader concerned had denied it.
The top UN official for the Central African Republic, Margaret Vogt, said the ceasefire agreement, witnessed by the regional grouping Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) - was to come into force within 72 hours of being signed.
According to The Hindu newspaper, after the 70 year-old woman managed to cross the LoC unhindered last September, alarmed Indian commanders responded by ordering new observation posts in the area - construction work that is barred under a 10-year-old ceasefire agreement between the two rivals.
Peace in Darfur looked a little more likely on February 20th with the agreement of a ceasefire between one of the main Darfur rebel groups, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and the government of Sudan.
NATO's intervention would be pretty brief one or at most two months and would not proceed at all unless there was a durable ceasefire, and rock-solid agreement between Macedonia's rival peoples.
Instead, they want the voters to concentrate on his more recent past - brokering the IRA ceasefire, negotiating the Good Friday Agreement, chuckling with Ian Paisley, hob-nobbing with Barack Obama.
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But everyone knows this means little, as the FARC have always insisted a ceasefire would be called only after a peace agreement had been hammered out.
The agreement stops short of declaring a ceasefire, and was about trying to build trust ahead of more substantive talks, says the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Bangkok.
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This time, the main paramilitary groups are on ceasefire and are signed up to the Good Friday agreement.
The IRA ceasefire leading to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement brought embryonic peace to Northern Ireland and marked an end to 30-plus years of reporting on the Troubles by Panorama.
And the UNP, during a ceasefire it brokered from 2002-06, sought an agreement with the rebels that would have given substantial autonomy to the mostly Tamil north and east.
The latter also should take the lead in negotiating a formal peace agreement to end a war which technically continues (a ceasefire ended the fighting in 1953).
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