11.   Ashrawi met several ministers, including French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine and Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss, while in Geneva to address the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

12.   Before coming to Taiwan, Summers will visit Singapore and meet finance ministers from several Southeast Asian countries.

13.   Earlier Friday, the foreign secretary met government ministers to discuss Kashmir and trade between India and Britain.

14.   Earlier, as the troops headed toward Kabul, Karzai was meeting senior ministers of the incoming cabinet, U.N. officials and American diplomats at the presidential palace.

15.   Freeh also met the ministers of Interior, Carlos Figueroa, and Justice, Soledad Alvear.

16.   Haji Abul Fazel, spokesman for a Shiite faction of the northern alliance, said Karzai would meet Cabinet ministers Thursday.

17.   He was detained Friday while entering the industry ministry, where he and a group of miners were to meet the minister to discuss possible mine closures.

18.   He was seized as he tried to meet chief minister Mahmud.

19.   He was detained Friday while entering the industry ministry, where he and a group of minors were to meet the minister to discuss possible mine closures.

20.   He will get another chance when he meets NATO ministers this week in Budapest, Hungary, once part of the Soviet empire and now part of NATO.