21.   Taiwan soon will allow government officials to participate in semi-official talks with China to help resolve problems dogging their relations, an official said Wednesday.

22.   The government has a lifetime bar against trying to influence government action on a matter in which a former official participated personally and substantially while in government.

23.   U.S. officials were also participating in the meeting.

24.   U.S., Dominican and Haitian officials are participating.

25.   This first session is to be followed by a second meeting in which high-level officials will participate from both governments, Xinhua said.

26.   Turkish police had also exchanged information on the militants with US authorities, but denied earlier reports that US security officials had participated in their interrogation, he added.