1.   Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Sweden have already initialled such deals with Washington.

2.   Moroccan Fisheries director Mohammed Rami initialed the deal with his EU counterpart John Spencer.

3.   Switzerland is the first to initial the deal.

4.   Word at the Pentagon is that a deal could be initialed by Monday if negotiators agree on giving Serbs access to the Adriatic Sea.

5.   Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni and Brtish Major General John McColl would initial the deal later Monday, said senior interior ministry official General Deen Mohammad Jurhat.

6.   Tudjman -- along with his Serbian and Bosnian counterparts -- initialled the deal Tuesday after weeks of negotiations at the Ohio air base.

7.   US President Bill Clinton announced in Washington earlier Tuesday that a peace deal would be initialled ending the wars in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

8.   Majali and his Israeli counterpart Yitzhak Rabin initialled the deal here on Monday and it is to be signed next Wednesday on the border between the two countries.

9.   Representatives were summoned for informal consultations to review texts that might be put to the Council if a peace deal is initialled Monday, diplomats said.

10.   State radio said the two men would initial the deal.