peace treaty

noun

: an agreement to stop fighting a war

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Richard Nixon couldn’t make peace between Syria and Israel in 1974; Bill Clinton managed to get Israel and Jordan to sign a historic peace treaty in 1994 but fell short of his far more ambitious goal to establish a more comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 2 May 2025 Kellogg added that Russia had not yet delivered a memorandum on working with Ukraine to draft a framework for a ceasefire and a potential peace treaty. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025 Jordan's current foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told State TV that the expulsion of Palestinians to the country would be a breach of Jordan's historic peace treaty with Israel and seen as a declaration of war. Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025 Israel says the Egyptians have now exceeded troop limits stipulated by the peace treaty. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peace treaty

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“Peace treaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peace%20treaty. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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