fragile cease-fire
1fragile — adjective 1) fragile porcelain Syn: breakable, easily broken; delicate, dainty, fine, flimsy; eggshell; formal frangible Ant: durable, robust 2) the fragile cease fire Syn …
2Tajikistan — /teuh jik euh stan , stahn , jee keuh /, n. Tadzhikistan. * * * Tajikistan Introduction Tajikistan Background: Tajikistan has experienced three changes in government and a five year civil war since it gained independence in 1991 from the USSR. A… …
3Eritrea — Eritrean, adj., n. /er i tree euh/; It. /e rddee trdde ah/, n. a republic in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: Italian colony 1890 1941; province of Ethiopia 1962 93; independent since 1993. 3,589,687; 47,076 sq. mi. (121,927 sq. km). Cap.: Asmara. * *… …
4Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
5Iraqi Kurdish Civil War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Iraqi Kurdish Civil War partof= caption= date=May 1994 November 24 1997 place=Iraqi Kurdistan result=Washington Agreement, cease fire combatant1 = flagicon|Kurdistan Kurdish Democratic Party flagcountry|Iran… …
6Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission — The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) was established on 22 February 2002 under the terms of a ceasefire agreement signed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, as a body that would monitor the ceasefire and… …
7United States–Vietnam relations — After a 20 year hiatus of severed ties, President Bill Clinton announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on July 11, 1995. Subsequent to President Clinton s normalization announcement, in August 1995, both nations… …
8Poncke Princen — Johan Cornelis Princen (November 21, 1925, The Hague – February 22, 2002, Jakarta), better known as Poncke Princen, was a Dutch anti Nazi fighter and colonial soldier. In 1948, he deserted, joined the pro independence guerrillas in the then Dutch …
9Poncke Princen — Johan Cornelis Princen (21 novembre 1925, La Haye – 22 février 2002, Jakarta), familièrement appelé Poncke Princen, était un résistant anti nazi néerlandais et un soldat de l armée néerlandaise. En 1948, alors qu il était soldat dans le corps… …
10Joseph J. Sisco — Joseph John Sisco (1919 November 23, 2004), a diplomat who played a major role in then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger s shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Department spanned five presidential administrations… …
