61.   In the past, Barshefsky has joined such negotiations when an agreement seems near.

62.   But the outlawed organisation has as yet given no concrete signs that it plans to restore its truce to enable its political wing to join the negotiations.

63.   Chernomyrdin would not say whether he would go to Budennovsk to join negotiations with the Chechen guerrillas.

64.   The third round of talks between the Algerian government and the opposition opened here Monday amid hopes that fundamentalist leaders would join the negotiations.

65.   The United States as the chief sponsor of the Middle East peace process had hoped the army chiefs would soon join the negotiations.

66.   It has been extended twice amid disputes over whether Taiwan government officials could join the negotiations.

67.   It was extended twice amid disputes over whether Taiwan government officials could join negotiations.

68.   London is insisting on at least a gesture from Sinn Fein toward the decommissioning of IRA weapons before the party joins the negotiations.

69.   Ramos on Tuesday suspended the talks after the communists insisted that a detained guerrilla leader, Sotero Llamas, first be freed so that he could join the negotiations.

70.   Separatist leaders have been allowed to cross from their southern mountain hideouts to the capital Grozny to join the negotiations, which began in mid June.