peace accord

Biden said on Tuesday that he hoped that the deal would spur a peace accord in Gaza as well; in any case, his diplomats and their negotiating partners in Egypt and Qatar are trying to restart peace talks, which over the past year have veered between fruitless and dormant.

“We ask God all the time for a peace accord. It’s like a family quarrel.”

Under a peace accord, each is allowed to deploy only a tiny number of troops or border guards in the zone.

Earlier this year, four bishops from the Pacific coast state of Guerrero met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord.

He was placed under U.S. sanctions in 2022 that accused him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region and undermine a U.S.-brokered peace accord from more than 25 years ago.