"We demonstrated to residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as to the whole world, that we are sincere in our desire for political settlement," he said.
The report also reiterates the European desire for a Cyprus settlement.
The desire for a lasting settlement was so strong that the compromise peace, which satisfied no one completely and had many loopholes, was accepted.
The prince's declaration was an attempt to rekindle the desire for a negotiated settlement by holding out the possibility of "normal relations" and security for Israel.
But Britain is not in the euro and, in German eyes, its desire for a new settlement with the EU and an in/out referendum makes it unsuitable for leadership.
Adding to the desire for a speedy settlement, the authorities said, was rising antibank sentiment after recent scandals, including accusations that banks manipulated a crucial interest rate affecting the cost of trillions of dollars in mortgages and other loans.
Indeed, an important reason for Washington's desire for a peace settlement is precisely fear of a political meltdown in Kabul next year, stemming from a bitterly contested and rigged election producing a president whose authority would be rejected by the existing Kabul elites and the Afghan National Army.
Consider just two moments last week, when Prime Minister David Cameron signed a formal agreement on the terms of a referendum on Scottish independence in two years' time, and signaled more clearly than ever his desire for a "new settlement" with the other 26 members of the European Union.
But in a sign the Bank might be rethinking its approach to regulation of the financial sector, possibly in line with the Government's expressed desire for a "new settlement" with the City of London, Mr Carney said that he was open to suggestions of how it could do things differently.
As captain, McCauley tried hard to settle the dispute and reach a compromise with the claim-jumpers who "had no desire for a peaceful settlement".
The man who was most reluctant to accept the Lancaster House agreement, Mr Mugabe, has triumphed from it, and Bishop Muzorewa, the ex-prime minister whose desire for peace made the settlement possible, has been trounced at the polls.
