31. Yeltsin said Russia will sign a convention banning anti-personnel mines and Chirac of France, urged the leaders present to do the same. 32. Yeltsin said Russia will sign a convention banning anti-personnel mines, and summit host, President Jacques Chirac of France, urged the leaders present to do the same. 33. Clinton opened the summit Friday urging leaders gathered here to make democracy and free trade the cornerstones of a new, even-handed inter-American partnership. 34. They urged refugee leaders at this camp for Rwandan refugees to consider returning, telling them the situation was improving in Rwanda. 35. Zuma had urged political leaders in the Great Lakes region in mid-January to put pressure on the Burundian rebels to accept a ceasefire. 36. Kono is also expected to again urge Chinese leaders to halt nuclear testing. 37. Mkapa urged African leaders not to rush to look hgfor scapegoats after their failure due to lack of vision and courage in putting their houses in order. 38. PLO leader Yasser Arafat urged Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to stop expelling Palestinians from Libya, in an interview published on Sunday. 39. President George W. Bush Monday urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to denounce terrorism in the Middle East and embrace the Tenet plan for achieving a ceasefire. 40. The Arab League Friday urged Moslem leaders at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit in Morocco to take action to help Bosnian Moslems and Libya. |