31.   The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues.

32.   The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations.

33.   Also, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has used the crisis to firmly nudge Israelis and Palestinians toward new peace negotiations.

34.   American strategies must respond to those internal changes in Arab societies as well as to the deterioration in the peace negotiations that worsens them.

35.   And although the administration has demanded that the Arab states do their bit by denouncing terrorism, it has not formally brought them into the peace negotiations.

36.   An official Egyptian statement said Mubarak had urged Netanyahu to accept a U.S.-backed proposal to restart peace negotiations.

37.   And if some form of peace negotiations resumed with Arafat, the hurdles would be far greater.

38.   And it was Chernomyrdin who insisted that peace negotiations begin in Grozny.

39.   And third, I would say, is the Middle East peace negotiations.

40.   Arafat was never received there until he renounced political violence and agreed to peace negotiations with Israel.