Those include a cessation of all attacks from Gaza, an end to arms smuggling into the territory and some progress toward the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli corporal who was captured and taken to Gaza in June 2006.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said there had not been progress on the release of Corporal Shalit, who is known to be alive and whom Israel wants desperately to bring home.
The good feeling generated by PM Olmert's long-delayed December 23 summit meeting with Abu Mazen quickly dissipated under the weight of reports of a new settlement in the Jordan Valley (now suspended by Peretz), continued Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot and neighboring kibbutzim, foot-dragging on both sides in implementing the transfer of tax revenues, lack of progress on the release of Cpl.
Maybe this process starts and progresses with the release of cytokines and growth factors by the granulomas produced in other sites, such as the liver.
There's been progress; the government released, among other people, Wael Ghonim, a missing Google executive, and there was a lot of shopping and traffic in Cairo today (and a human chain around a government building).
Although "considerable progress" had been made, the inquiry warned there was "still much to do" and hinted at the slow progress in securing the release of certain documents.
Spain, which has been pressing the European Union to ease its policy of linking economic aid to Cuba with human rights progress, helped broker the release.
Japanese officials have made it clear that the abduction issue is the most important topic in their talks with North Korea, though they do not seem to be making progress in winning the release of the abductees' families.
Foreigners and officials with international relief groups left Sierra Leone today, as the United Nations reported no progress in obtaining the release of more than 300 of its peacekeepers and civilians kidnapped during clashes last week with the rebel Revolutionary United Front.
