31.   A senior State Department official said the Moscow meeting will not yield progress on the outstanding issues.

32.   Brittan said the talks in Washington had not yielded much progress on that dispute.

33.   But observers cautioned that the talks will yield little progress.

34.   The United States welcomed Thursday the decision by an Israeli-Palestinian committee to resume meetings but officials privately voiced skepticism that the talks will yield much progress.

35.   The United States had threatened sanctions if the talks yielded no progress.

36.   Israel and Syria resumed US-mediated talks here in December after a six-month hiatus in negotiations but the meetings have so far yielded little progress.

37.   Peace talks have yet yielded little progress.

38.   Talks in Geneva between Croat and Serb forces failed to yield progress, according to the Croatian delegates, although UN mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg said an agreement was possible.

39.   The government and the rebels entered a ceasefire in July, but three rounds of peace talks yielded little progress and the Maoists broke the truce in late November.

40.   The last round held in Moscow last week yielded no progress.