1.   Delegates from four different Afghan opposition groups will meet with U.N. officials to discuss forming a provisional council that will govern the country.

2.   Meanwhile, Barak met with Ariel Sharon, his rival in the opposition Likud party, to discuss forming an alliance.

3.   Schrum approached nine schools in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and New Mexico to discuss forming a new conference.

4.   Arafat is scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday to discuss forming teams to negotiate unresolved issues from the interim peace agreements.

5.   As the siege of Kunduz tightened, international negotiators reportedly agreed to meet this weekend in Germany to discuss forming a new broad-based Afghan government.

6.   Netanyahu told reporters they will discuss forming teams to negotiate unresolved issues from the interim peace agreements.

7.   On the diplomatic front, Undersecretary of State John Bolton met Saturday with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov to discuss forming an international coalition to fight terrorism.

8.   Socialist Party leader Georgi Parvanov said Sunday that the Socialists wanted to meet with all parties in Parliament and the president on Monday to discuss forming a coalition.

9.   The Bosnian Serb leadership was meeting in the northern town of Banja Luka to discuss forming a union with rebel Serbs in Croatia.

10.   The president told Komsomolskaya Pravda he would continue meeting leaders of pro-democracy movements to discuss forming one bloc uniting all democratic forces.