Ceasefire ‘a moment of opportunity’ — Kerry

“This is not a time for congratulations and joy, or anything except a serious determination, a focus, by everybody to try to figure out the road ahead,” Kerry tells a half-dozen reporters who were hastily summoned to his hotel suite only 45 minutes after the ceasefire deal was struck. “This is a respite. It’s a moment of opportunity, not an end; it’s not a solution. It’s the opportunity to find the solution.”

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UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says the cease-fire announcement was the result of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s trip recent trip to the region as well as 48 hours of “extremely active diplomacy at all levels” — including Robert Serry, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.

— AP