The Maoists, in their alliance with the political parties, have promised to admit international cease-fire monitors and to play within the rules of parliamentary democracy.

Not Just Keeping the Peace More and more, peacekeepers in blue helmets no longer merely stand between the opposing sides in a conflict as neutral cease-fire monitors.

The team of 50 observers, whom the community calls "cease-fire monitors," managed to broker a pause in the fighting in Slovenia.

Mr. Trimble had pressed for a cease-fire monitor, but Mr. Reid said the power to judge whether cease-fires were being honored would remain his.

"This is a major blow to the cease-fire and worsens the already fragile situation," said Hagrup Haukland, head of a European team of cease-fire monitors.

The Security Council struggles to explain its unanimous vote to cut back to 270 rather than increase the U.N. peacekeeping force originally sent to Rwanda as cease-fire monitors.

Western Governments began removing cease-fire monitors and nonessential personnel from Yugoslavia.

In the western part of the province, a British cease-fire monitor and his translator were shot in the first attack that has wounded an international observer.

The Congo operation - 5,537 people, most of them not troops but cease-fire monitors and support workers - is not intended to begin until a cease-fire holds.

Allied officials in Brussels said no decision on bombing would be made until all 1,400 cease-fire monitors were safely out.