21.   Attempts by the United States to organize a Middle East peace conference remained deadlocked at the end of August.

22.   Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mohammad Moussa warned, however, that any opposition to a Middle East peace conference based on UN resolutions would contradict international legitimacy.

23.   The PLO failed to secure a UN-supervised peace conference to which it would send a delegation to represent the Palestinian people.

24.   After taking part in the opening of the Madrid Middle East peace conference, Gorbachev had a two-day summit meeting with French President Mitterrand.

25.   A US State Department spokeswoman said that extremists were trying to frustrate the efforts of the USA to convene a peace conference.

26.   Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place on the eve of the opening of the Middle East peace conference in Madrid.

27.   This first session dealt mainly with co-operation between the two countries at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference.

28.   Sami al-Khatib, said that the government believed that the bomb was intended as an obstacle for the peace conference and for reconciliation in Lebanon.

29.   The efforts of Lord Carrington as chair of the EC-sponsored peace conference on Yugoslavia were increasingly criticized as ineffective.

30.   Talks in the other forum for negotiations -- the CSCE talks in Rome preparatory to a peace conference in Minsk -- also collapsed in September.