91.   But signs are emerging that the Russian and CSCE negotiators are moving to an Abkhazia-style compromise, with a Russian force under international observation.

92.   Ex-government forces under Ahmad Shah Masood have joined the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam and Shiite Moslem troops of Karim Khalili in a coalition against the Taliban.

93.   The opposition is made up mainly of forces under the Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam and those of former national defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood.

94.   The Security Council will make the final decision about putting the forces under UN or IFOR direction.

95.   The protocol provides for the demobilisation of the rival armies and the formation of a new, joint national defence force under UN supervision.

96.   The regional leaders meanwhile set up a panel to plan a full-scale peacekeeping force under its own command.

97.   The signatories agreed to hand over their weapons to peacekeeping forces under the supervision of UN observers.

98.   US and French officials also have discussed putting a NATO rapid reaction force under French command, Bacon said.

99.   Turkey has also said it was willing to participate any multinational peacekeeping force deployed in Afghanistan as long as the force in under UN auspices.

100.   Kohl was opening a lengthy debate before a vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, on having German troops join the force under NATO command.