A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 18 January 2009.

A flurry of international diplomatic activity, principally involving the European Communities (EC), had achieved a fragile ceasefire by the end of the month.

By Aug. 31 a fragile ceasefire was in place in preparations for negotiations on Abkhazia's status beginning on Sept. 3.

This outbreak of hostilities ended a fragile 13-day ceasefire arranged by the Maronite Patriarch, Mgr Nasrullah Sfeir [see p. 37265].

In Najaf, a fragile ceasefire holds, with Muqtada al-Sadr making defiant statements but continuing negotiations.

The warning had worked, but now that the League War was over, too many governments had begun to think and act complacently, as if the world now had peace instead of a fragile ceasefire.

However, Cambodian troops reportedly used the fragile ceasefire to dig into new positions and to set up sandbags.

Despite neither the rocket launchings nor Israeli retaliatory strikes having completely stopped, the fragile ceasefire remained in order.

These incidents undermine the already fragile ceasefire and threaten to destroy it completely.

It is a conflict that has nearly been resolved several times, and a fragile ceasefire has been in place since 2003.