111.   Aid officials have described the situation as catastrophic.

112.   An Afghan present at the talks said he had described situation inside Afghanistan as one of feuding local warlords threating to further destabilise his nascent regime.

113.   Boutros-Ghali on Wednesday described the situation in Yemen as intolerable and appealed for an end to the fighting.

114.   Both NUM and management said fighting had halted, but described the situation as tense.

115.   Boutros-Ghali described the situation in Yemen as intolerable and also appealed for an end to the fighting.

116.   Boutros-Ghali at the same time described the situation in Yemen as intolerable and appealed for an end to the fighting there.

117.   But while the military situation has been described as stable, criticism has grown of slow progress on the implementation of the civilian aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement.

118.   Evans described the situation in Rwanda as very distressing.

119.   Fernandes Friday dismissed the immediate threat of war with Pakistan, describing the situation along the tense border as stable.

120.   The Red Cross has described the situation in the north as tense and volatile.