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U.S. Announces Agreement In Al-Fallujah

19 April 2004 -- The U.S.-led coalition says it has reached an agreement with local community leaders to defuse tension in the western Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah.

Spokesman Dan Senor today said the agreement includes joint patrolling with coalition and Iraqi security forces.

Senor outlined a joint communique to be issued later today as a result of negotiations between coalition officials, the Iraqi Governing Council, and a delegation of Iraqi leaders from Al-Fallujah.

"All parties, according to the communique, welcomed the improved situation in the city of Fallujah and committed themselves to take all possible measures to implement a full and unbroken cease-fire," Senor said. "They recognize that, in the absence of a true cease-fire, major hostilities could resume on short notice."

Senor said it also includes an amnesty for people who hand in heavy weapons and allows access to hospitals as well as arrangements to bury the dead.

(AP/AFP)

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