41.   The so-called contact group comprises the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Germany.

42.   The unanimous agreement in the contact group came after the Russia decided to soften its usually stalwart support for the Serbs.

43.   The United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia make up the negotiating team known as the contact group.

44.   Their rebuttal has been met by silence, division, disarray and embarrassed inaction, responses that the contact group was formed to avoid.

45.   There can be no change because the contact group insisted on this plan being the last and definitive plan.

46.   Thus if Clinton ends the arms embargo on the Bosnian government, the contact group will certainly fall apart.

47.   Together with the United States and Germany, those countries make up the so-called contact group, a diplomatic team working to bring peace to the troubled Balkans.

48.   When he emerged from the final session Wednesday, Churkin was asked if the contact group would soon urge the Security Council to consider easing sanctions against Yugoslavia.

49.   A contact group was set up by the United States and Russia along with European nations to push the peace process in the former Yugoslavia several years ago.

50.   An Islamic contact group on Bosnia was meeting Sunday to study a five-point plan for action by Pakistan, which chairs the group.