11.   The US ambassador to Tunisia, Robert Pelletreau, had led the US delegation in a series of regular meetings in Tunis with PLO representatives.

12.   Permanent official contacts were established in the same month with the Soviet Union and a Soviet ambassador to the Vatican was appointed.

13.   China lodged a strong protest over the meeting with the US ambassador to China, James Lilley.

14.   Nguyen Manh Cam, a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the Soviet Union, was not a member of the politburo or secretariat.

15.   After a brief spell as ambassador to Turkey, he was expelled from the party and then worked for the Slovak forestry commission.

16.   The communiqu was criticized by the Iranian ambassador to Kuwait, Hoseyn Sadeqi, and was attacked in the Iranian press and radio broadcasts.

17.   Three candidates were expected to contest the election, acting President Brazauskas, former President Vytautas Landsbergis and the Lithuanian ambassador to the USA, Stasis Lozaraitis.

18.   Just after his emissary met Konstantin, a former Russian ambassador to Constantinople urged Nicholas to abandon the idea of international cooperation and present the Turks with an ultimatum.

19.   Even so the president could do no more than test the reaction of the ambassador to some of the advice and conclusions of his own government machine.

20.   It warned the United States through the Indian ambassador to the United Nations that if this advance continued, that China would intervene.