We have to go for a global truce.

This talk is like a violation of the truce.

For Ankara the benefits of calling a truce are clear.

Why don't you support the process of the largest ever global truce?

Why don't we all team up? Why don't we bring truce to life?

Welcoming also the individual support of world personalities for the promotion of the Olympic Truce,

And I said to him, Mr. Brahimi, is this nuts, going for a global truce?

Welcoming the Palestinian truce initiative and its acceptance by Israel that came into effect on 26 November 2006, and urging both parties to maintain this truce, which could pave the way for genuine negotiations towards a just resolution of the conflict,

Linking up with the Olympics I went and saw Seb Coe. I said, London 2012 is about truce.

TEL AVIV Finally, the long sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality.

Welcoming the Palestinian truce initiative and its acceptance by Israel that came into effect on 26 November 2006, and urging both sides to maintain this truce, which could pave the way for genuine negotiations towards a just resolution to the conflict, and extend it to the West Bank,

The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), through the Observer Group Lebanon, supported UNIFIL in the fulfilment of its mandate.

33. Also decides to maintain provisions for the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization at the level recommended by the Secretary General

In addition, 79 military observers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) assisted the Force in carrying out its tasks.

Hamas apparently did not envision a full scale confrontation with Israel when it refused to renew a six month truce. With Gaza suffering under a lengthy siege, Hamas leader Khalid Mashal said that there was no point in a new truce, since the old one had failed to lift the siege on Gaza.

That resurgence of violence has grave consequences, including, recently, the death of a French officer serving the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.

We are concerned at the recent upsurge of violence, which has threatened to upset the delicate truce of the past few months.

3. Requests the Secretary General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States, drawing the attention of world public opinion to the contribution such a truce would make to the promotion of international understanding, peace and goodwill, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of this objective

3. Requests the Secretary General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States, drawing the attention of world public opinion to the contribution such a truce would make to the promotion of international understanding, peace and goodwill, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of this objective

Recalling also its resolution 48 11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or Olympic Truce calling for a truce during the Games that would encourage a peaceful environment and ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes and others at the Games and, thereby, mobilizing the youth of the world to the cause of peace,

Welcoming the establishment by the International Olympic Committee of an International Olympic Truce Foundation and an International Olympic Truce Centre to promote further the ideals of peace and understanding through sport, on whose Board the President in office of the General Assembly sits and the Secretary General and the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization are represented,

Recalling also its resolution 48 11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or Olympic Truce calling for a truce during the Games that would encourage a peaceful environment and ensure the safe passage and participation of athletes and relevant persons at the Games, thereby mobilizing the youth of the world to the cause of peace,

We've got resources at the moment in 174 countries trying to get young people to be the driving force behind the vision of that global truce.

Bearing in mind its resolution 48 11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or Olympic Truce calling for a truce during the Games that would encourage a peaceful environment and ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes and others at the Games and, thereby, mobilizing the youth of the world to the cause of peace,

The launch of five Qassam rockets into Israel five days after the signing of the truce suggests its precariousness. So can it last and evolve into something durable?

We have to utilize this day of ceasefire and nonviolence and go for a global truce, go for the largest recorded cessation of hostilities, both domestically and internationally, ever recorded.

To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes. But all who had feared a great Israeli offensive in Gaza should make every effort to strengthen the truce and create a climate for relaxing tensions that could, with time, lead to a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.

Therefore do not relax, nor call towards truce by yourself and it is you who will dominate and Allah is with you, and He will never cause a loss in your deeds.

Therefore do not relax, nor call towards truce by yourself and it is you who will dominate and Allah is with you, and He will never cause a loss in your deeds.

The ongoing construction of the wall inside the West Bank had isolated and impoverished those living in the adjacent areas, especially in the area between the wall and the 1949 truce line.

The Arab quagmire may not be creating conditions for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. But it has turned the strategic truce favored by many Arab leaders into the only conceivable alternative.

To be sure, even if, beginning today, we start working for such a lasting truce, there will inevitably be further days of war ahead. Rockets will, no doubt, again be launched against us.

He condemned the killing of all innocent civilians and called for compliance with those understandings, adherence to the truce, the cessation of violence and the exercise of self restraint by Israel in particular.

1. Urges Member States to observe, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, during the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, to be held in Athens

Such a truce is possible. Israel s assault scored impressive initial successes, while Hamas can take pride in having reached Tel Aviv with its missiles, an achievement that eluded Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon War.

During those years, a regional group composed of representatives from all over the Pacific region was sent to monitor the peace in Bougainville first a Truce Monitoring Group, followed by a Peace Monitoring Group.

The Assembly also took note of the solemn appeal made by the President of the General Assembly on 4 August 2004 in connection with the observance of the Olympic Truce (A 58 863) (decision 58 570).

5. Requests the Secretary General to promote the observance of the Olympic Truce among Member States and support for human development initiatives through sport, and to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in the realization of these objectives

The Arab leaders welcome the outcomes of the dialogue among Palestinian groups that was held recently in Cairo, and support the Palestinian national dialogue and the unified Palestinian positions in the matter of the truce and mutual cease fire.

10. We urge Member States to observe the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, now and in the future, and to support the International Olympic Committee in its efforts to promote peace and human understanding through sport and the Olympic Ideal.

Recalling also its resolution 48 11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or Olympic Truce with the aim of ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes and others at the Games,

4. Welcomes the participation of the President in office of the General Assembly and also the representatives of the Secretary General and the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in the International Olympic Truce Foundation

3. Calls upon all Member States to cooperate with the International Olympic Committee in its efforts to use the Olympic Truce as an instrument to promote peace, dialogue and reconciliation in areas of conflict during and beyond the Olympic Games period

Palestinian workers, who go back home every night, do not become alienated from their normal life. Future workers from Gaza, having a moral right to earn their living in Israel, will become natural supporters of the maintenance of the truce.

Causing loss of lives does not contribute to the present or future welfare of the people of the region. There is currently no guarantee that a political truce with Hamas or Hezbollah would result in a renunciation of their absolutist vision.