21.   Privy meetings between high-level representatives from both sides for the purpose of bringing about an armistice.

22.   The next meeting between the two sides was expected to take place in early May.

23.   Further meetings followed, as did meetings between Bouterse and the Tucayana and two dissident Jungle Commando leaders.

24.   The Pretoria talks were a follow-up to the first meeting between the government and the ANC in Cape Town in May.

25.   It was widely regarded as presaging a new era of more co-operative meetings between the leaders of the two governments.

26.   Details are released of a recent meeting between a PLO-approved Palestinian lawyer and Shamir.

27.   Later, officials described the meeting between the businessmen and members of the government-in-exile as extremely positive.

28.   The Spanish press noted as significant a meeting between Fernndez Ordez and the former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

29.   The visit cleared the way for a summit meeting between the Communist Party leaders of the two countries.

30.   They did agree to continue lower-level meetings between party representatives and Brian Mawhinney, a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office.