1.   In Belfast, seven other parties begin negotiations on forming a lawmaking assembly.

2.   The plan envisioned a lawmaking assembly in Belfast that would send representatives to a cross-border council.

3.   The two governments, which cosponsor the talks that were to continue Tuesday, recommended last week that Protestants and Catholics share power in a new Belfast lawmaking assembly.

4.   Under the shadow of escalating violence, all eight parties participating in the peace talks began discussing how to form a lawmaking assembly for Northern Ireland.