Sentence examples for Halt to fighting from inspiring English sources

But a United Nations official said the resolution would not specifically endorse a halt to fighting in Afghanistan.

This afternoon Javier Solana, the European Union's chief envoy to Macedonia, announced a measure of success: a halt to fighting in Aracinovo, if not elsewhere.

At a summit in early November, delegates welcomed an agreement reached in September in Minsk, Belarus, between the Russian and Ukrainian governments to bring a halt to fighting in eastern Ukraine.

On Sunday the government had more or less called a halt to fighting in an effort to negotiate with tribal leaders for the surrender of militants and the release of hostages.

British foreign secretary Philip Hammond, sitting alongside him, was quick to point out that Lavrov's remarks made the chance of a temporary halt to fighting "somewhere close to zero".

As a result, arranging a halt to fighting in the Gaza Strip "will take some time," Obama said at a White House news conference.

The ministers also called for the earliest possible halt to the fighting in Iraq.

It was the latest in a series of attempts to broker local ceasefires in an effort to bring about a nationwide halt to the fighting.

The Kachin Independence Organization issued a statement calling for the cease-fire to include all of Kachin State, the mountainous, northernmost part of Myanmar and the homeland of the Kachin, suggesting it welcomed a halt to the fighting.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been asked by President Bush to travel to the Middle East, but her trip is not believed to be scheduled until sometime next week, making any halt to the fighting unlikely until then.

As the violence flared, hopes faded for a speedy halt to the fighting.