51.   Kviraya also implicated the once-powerful paramilitary opposition group Mkhedrioni, although its influential leader Dzhaba Iosseliani was not mentioned.

52.   Meanwhile, two influential Kashmiri Moslem leaders on Monday said they were also trying to establish contact with Al-Faran.

53.   The ceasefire in the south of the capital was brokered by Sheikh Mohamed Moulim Hassan, an influential religious leader who heads the moderate Somali Islamic Party.

54.   The JUP, headed by the influential religious leader Maulana Shah Mohammad Noorani, is an Islamic party based in Pakistan.

55.   The influential leader of the Catholic church in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor has declared his neutrality ahead of a UN-sponsored dialogue, sources said here Wednesday.