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Further references are needed, especially for the general concept. — ERcheck (talk) 12:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 White flag 2 Cessation of Hostilities Agreements 3 Korean armistice 4 Ceasefire?

[edit] White flag

An empty white box is a poor illustration of a white flag. Lumos3 10:32, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. If a suitable image of a white flag is not uploaded, we should remove the empty white image. Webdinger 23:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cessation of Hostilities Agreements

The term Cessation of Hostilities Agreement seems to be rather common in the context of a number of recent conflicts in Africa and Asia. I'm wondering does the concept need it's own article, or should it be incorporated into this one? Mostlyharmless 23:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Korean armistice

I'm not sure, because the NYTimes never specifically states that this is a peace treaty, but does this information affect the blurb about North and South Korea?: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/world/asia/04korea.html?th&emc=th

they haven't signed a peace treaty, they've only signed an agreement to work on one.--Jeff 19:08, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

If it does, that content should be changed to "armistice which occured in 1953, but did not end in a peace treaty until 2007." 99.245.226.106 13:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ceasefire?

Is Armistice about the same as Ceasefire? Please something about it in the article. TIA.--Hhielscher (talk) 20:44, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

• I'm just talking instinct here, but to me there's no difference. It seems unnecessary to have two pages... Nizingur (talk) 14:03, 11 May 2008 (UTC)Nizingur

• AFAIK, armistice and ceasefire are in fact two different concepts. An armistice is an agreement of the parties to stop fights in a war, whereas a ceasefire means just a temporary stoppage of an armed conflict for a certain purpose, e.g. rescueing of dead or injured soldiers, securing safe conduct of negotiators etc. A ceasefire may lead into an armistice, but they are not the same thing. Absolutely no merge, but improve the discrimination of the two articles. --FordPrefect42 (talk) 14:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC) -- PS: [1] might give some more information about the precise usage of these terms in public international law.