A ceasefire agreement is a promise made by opposing parties in a conflict to stop fighting for a specific period of time. It is an agreement to pause the battle and find ways to resolve the conflict peacefully instead of using violence.
Sentences with «ceasefire agreement»
Longstanding ceasefire agreements with some armed ethnic groups have been broken. (politics.co.uk)
On Ukraine, the communiqué only stated that both China and Russia do not believe there is a military solution and any political and diplomatic solution must be based on the new Minsk ceasefire agreement signed in February 2015. (fortune.com)
On June 23, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC) signed a bilateral ceasefire agreement, after more than five decades of armed conflict. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)