31.   The meeting would mark the highest-level contact between the two countries.

32.   The Wednesday meeting marked the start of those talks.

33.   They noted that the Friday meeting marked the first time in two years that China had sent a representative to the commission meeting.

34.   They represented by far the strongest action of four days of USOC meetings marked more by stop-and-go movement on other major issues.

35.   Holbrooke told reporters the meeting would mark the first time the EU, Russia and the United States met as a group with the Bosnian and Serbian Presidents.

36.   The paper said the meeting would mark a new era in cooperation between the two countries.

37.   The Yeltsin-Lukashenko meeting will mark the first anniversary of the signing of an earlier union treaty, which envisaged sweeping integration of political and economic structures.

38.   Their meeting will mark the first anniversary of the signing of an earlier union treaty, which envisaged sweeping integration of political and economic structures.

39.   The government has named Saturday as a special day for national security to be marked by meetings between President Mandela and Buthelezi.

40.   The NLD meeting marked the culmination of weeks of brinkmanship between the opposition and junta and has brought high expectations in Rangoon of a showdown.