2006 World
Peace Major
News:
*
Peace progress
between Israel
and the
President
* The peace
agreement signed
in Nepal
· The
paramilitary
organization in
the Basque
region of Spain
declared a cease
fire in March
and began peace
talks with Spain
in December
after 40 years
of conflict.
· A rival
faction in Chad
which had led an
unsuccessful
coup attempt,
signed a peace
agreement with
the President of
Chad on
Christmas Eve.
· Pakistan and
India began to
consider
surrendering
claims to
Kashmir and
jointly
supporting an
independent
Kashmiri state.
· China and
Japan announced
they had
assembled a
joint team of
historians to
re-evaluate
2,000 years of
history to find
new common
ground.
· In Northern
Ireland , the
Irish Sinn Fein
and the Loyalist
Democratic
Unionist Party,
continued to
make progress
towards sharing
a unified
government.
· In South
America ,
leaders from
nations across
the continent
met to discuss
the creation of
a pan South
American union
similar to the
European Union.
· The government
of Sudan agreed
to a joint peace
keeping force
from the UN and
the African
Union to help
quell tensions
it war-torn
Darfur .
· The United
Nations
peacekeeping
force in Lebanon
brokered a cease
fire between
Lebanese and
Israeli
soldiers.
· Leaders from
Iran and Iraq
released a joint
statement
pledging to
strengthen
bi-lateral
relations.
· Aceh in
Indonesia held
its first
democratic
elections, in
which former
rebels sought
change through
the democratic
process rather
than through
military
actions.
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