Speaking in Cairo, he said: "As I move to Syria, we will do whatever we can to urge and press for a cessation of hostilities and end to the killing and violence.
The members of the Security Council called for an immediate cessation of hostilities," Rwandan UN Ambassador Eugene Gasana told reporters after an emergency meeting of the 15-member council.
Kerry will seek "an immediate cessation of hostilities based on a return to the November 2012 ceasefire agreement," the White House said, stressing the need to protect civilian life both "in Gaza and in Israel".
For most people, a high risk of dying in the next five years can be reduced by increased physical activity, smoking cessation, and a healthy diet".
There are people old enough to have set up homes, had children and lost marriages, who don't remember the war because they were young teenagers in 1994 when the IRA called that first cessation of hostilities.
Abrupt cessation of alcohol use leads to brain hyperexcitability due to the sudden "release" effect on receptors which had been inhibited by the alcohol.
As a smoking cessation device, he says, they're "quite effective.
"We call upon Eta to make a public declaration of the definitive cessation of all armed action," the group added in a statement read out by Ahern in the Basque city of San Sebastian, northern Spain.
The resolution says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to be made by the Syrian authorities".
"The Cairo talks were based on an agreed premise of a total cessation of hostilities," said the Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev.
"The Biennale's ability to effectively contribute to the cessation of bipartisan government policy is far from black and white.
