21.   Talks between Iraq and Kuwait in Jeddah break down.

22.   It later appeared to have succeeded in organizing talks between Johnson and Doe, managing to tread a carefully neutral path.

23.   In the past the Irish government had insisted that it should be involved in talks between the parties from the start.

24.   The way was now clear for talks between the republics on a new federal or confederal arrangement for Yugoslavia.

25.   Meanwhile the talks between Chad and Libya had been making no progress, thereby disappointing any initial hopes invested in them.

26.   Despite a post-election resumption of fighting, a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN.

27.   The talks between Shamir and his Bulgarian counterpart Dimitur Popov centred on future plans for economic co-operation.

28.   The talks between Israel and Syria concentrated on the status of the Golan Heights and were believed to have taken place in an atmosphere of tension and hostility.

29.   The compensation claims and the nuclear issue had deadlocked the normalization talks between Japan and North Korea.

30.   Talks between representatives of the three communities appeared to defuse some of the tension.