31.   Efforts to arrange peace talks between Kabila and Mobutu continued in South Africa.

32.   Feissel, the resident representative of the secretary-general, has continued to meet separately with the two leaders since in efforts to arrange direct talks.

33.   Ganic met with the top U.N. official in former Yugoslavia, Yasushi Akashi, to try to arrange talks on the longer truce.

34.   Georgian and Abkhazian envoys have been meeting in Moscow to arrange direct talks between their presidents and draft a series of potential agreements.

35.   Georgian and Abkhazian presidential envoys were meeting in Moscow on Wednesday to try to arrange direct talks between Shevardnadze and Ardzinba.

36.   Georgian and Abkhazian officials have been meeting in Moscow to arrange talks between Shevardnadze and Abkhazian leader Vladislav Ardzinba, but little progress has been made.

37.   He also arranged talks with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday when their paths cross in Jerusalem.

38.   He said there was no point in arranging face-to-face talks with Denktash until the Turks show they are willing to be flexible.

39.   Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, has been spearheading international efforts to arrange peace talks between Milosevic and leaders of the ethnic Albanian community.

40.   Hosting Annan in the Kremlin on Wednesday, Putin said some of his Western partners had tried to dissuade him from arranging face-to-face talks.