Despite an American call on both sides to exercise "maximum restraint," Israeli jets fired rockets at a Hezbollah training camp in the Bekaa region today.

Last weekend Pakistan's foreign secretary announced that "maximum restraint" would be used by troops along Kashmir's so-called Line of Control.

The statement urged "maximum restraint" on all parties.

Protests followed from Arab and European governments, and the White House responded with a more muted call for all sides to show "maximum restraint."

The United Nations let a half-dozen battalions leave on condition that they exercise maximum restraint.

The United States and 32 other countries concluded four days of arms control meetings here with a public commitment to exercise "maximum restraint" before selling weapons to regions of conflict.

Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, called on both sides to show "maximum restraint" and take "decisive steps to defuse the escalating tension".

But in Beijing's highest-level response so far, China's premier, Wen Jiabao, merely called on all sides to exert "maximum restraint".

A. Well, I've said that I think the Israelis should exercise maximum restraint in dealing with those disturbances.

Mr. Putin asked the Palestinians to demonstrate a "maximum restraint to prevent a worsening of the crisis," the Kremlin said.