31.   The Belgian EU presidency said it had received two letters, one from Sharon and one from Arafat, spelling out to EU leaders their respective positions.

32.   The Bosnian presidency said it had awarded its highest honour, the Golden Medal of Kulin Ban, to Turkish President Suleyman Demirel and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

33.   The Belgian presidency said it had received two letters, one from Sharon and one from Arafat spelling out to EU leaders their respective positions.

34.   The Bosnian presidency said the meeting was postponed because only three representatives had arrived in Sarajevo by the end of the afternoon.

35.   The Croatian president went into the Walter Reed medical hospital last week with what the presidency said were digestive problems, an ulcer and swollen lymph glands.

36.   The Georgian presidency said that eight Georgian civilians were killed Friday by Abkhaz guerrillas in a village on the border between Abkhazia and Georgia proper.

37.   The interior ministers were also considering the setting up of a common European-wide system for exchanging visa information, the Spanish EU presidency said in a statement.

38.   The first round of Iraq-UN talks on an oil-for-food deal is expected to end later Tuesday, the Security Council presidency said.

39.   The Kazakh presidency said they were trying to organise the presence of all Central Asian presidents.

40.   The presidency said it had no comment on the issue.