11.   Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri will discuss the latest flareup in the Middle East with French President Jacques Chirac here on Sunday, the French presidency announced Saturday.

12.   Last month, the presidency announced the failure of the latest phase of talks with the FIS leadership.

13.   Later the presidency announced Yeltsin had asked Viktor Chernomyrdin, as expected, to remain in office as prime minister, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

14.   Meanwhile Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and his Croatian counterpart Franjo Tudjman are to meet Tuesday in the Croatian capital with Holbrooke, the Croatian presidency announced.

15.   The Croatian presidency announced that upper house elections would be held on the same date.

16.   The Bosnian presidency Tuesday announced it had awarded posthumous honours to the three US officials killed in the road crash last year.

17.   The Croatian presidency earlier announced that it informed NATO Secretary General Willy Claes of its decision overnight Friday.

18.   The government of Rwandan Prime Minister Pierre Celestin Rwigema has been reshuffled with the appointment of a new interior minister, the presidency announced Friday on Radio Rwanda.