11.   A senior Kuwaiti defence ministry official said earlier the Iraqi forces massed near the border had not moved an inch.

12.   ETA last July killed senior defence ministry official General Francisco Vejillas and two other people in its last serious Madrid attack.

13.   The senior defence official, however, dimissed suggestions of serious clashes.

14.   Thousands of Iraqi troops poised across the border from Kuwait had not moved an inch by Tuesday, a senior Kuwaiti defence official told AFP.

15.   Israeli chief of staff General Amnon Shahak handed Ross an agenda for the military talks, said a senior defence ministry official, who refused to be named.

16.   Last month senior defence officials warned that rebels in the region, bordering India and Burma, were preparing for renewed fighting.

17.   Meanwhile a senior Kuwaiti defence ministry official said the Iraqi forces massed near the border had not moved back at all.

18.   Mubarak is likely to send an envoy to speak with Arafat about the ongoing crisis, a senior Israeli defence source said after the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting.

19.   Other senior defence ministry officials were also present with the co-defence ministers Tea Banh and Tea Chamraph.

20.   Other senior defence ministry officials were also present with the co-defence ministers Tea Banh and Tea Chamraph in the first talks between Phnom Penh officials and Ieng Sary.