1.   The trip is intended to reduce tensions after an internationally brokered truce between the government and rebels failed to stop the bloodshed.

2.   Both Holbrooke and NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana warned Milosevic not to shrug off NATO airstrike threats if he continues to oppose an internationally brokered peace plan for Kosovo.

3.   In Bosnia, too, Serbs have rejected an internationally brokered peace plan.

4.   Internationally brokered talks to end the conflict have stalled.

5.   Only a few thousand have returned since January, when the region returned to Croatian control through an internationally brokered peace deal.

6.   The latest standoff had cast doubt on the future of internationally brokered peace talks that had appeared close to resolving the dispute.

7.   The part-way power-share was negotiated on the sidelines of internationally brokered Congo talks in Sun City, South Africa.

8.   The Serbian government was to name its team of negotiators Friday after a grudging acceptance Thursday of the internationally brokered negotiations.

9.   The standoff cast doubt on the future of internationally brokered peace talks that had appeared near resolving the dispute.

10.   White farmers were hopeful Friday an internationally brokered deal to compensate them for seized land would bring an end to two years of political violence in Zimbabwe.