21.   Vietnam will give and not just take when it joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a senior Vietnamese diplomat was quoted as saying Friday.

22.   Zhirinovsky cursed people and smashed glasses against a wall, but he did not hit anyone, the diplomat was quoted as saying by ITAR-Tass.

23.   In Pretoria, the domestic SAPA news agency quoted unnamed diplomats as saying the peace talks would likely begin on Sunday.

24.   In Moscow on Monday, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying Russia would not be sending troops to Albania.

25.   According to a report in the Washington Post, quoting unidentified diplomats, Yeltsin was secluded at a government rest house outside Moscow under medical supervision at the weekend.

26.   According to a report in the Washington Post, quoting unidentified diplomats, Yeltsin was under medical supervision outside Moscow at the weekend.

27.   According to a report in the Washington Post newspaper, quoting unidentified diplomats, Yeltsin was under medical supervision outside Moscow at the weekend.

28.   An unidentified high-ranking Russian diplomat was quoted by Interfax as saying that the mounting violence could provoke an imminent pullout of Russian peacekeepers in the Balkans.

29.   Both Togo and Egypt have dismissed reports quoting diplomats as saying that Kinshasa was seeking military support from them.

30.   China will soon conduct a nuclear test for the first time since August last year, a Chinese diplomat here was quoted as saying here Thursday.