1.   After the Security Council ultimatum was issued, Bush offered to enter into direct negotiations.

2.   The country should conduct direct negotiations with its neighbours.

3.   Although he said he was flexible, Clinton made no specific new offers and he did not call for direct negotiations.

4.   As foreign minister, Sharon would move out of the shadows of power and into direct negotiations with the Palestinians on a final peace settlement.

5.   At any stage of this process, the litigants could decide to try once more to settle the case, this time likely through direct negotiations.

6.   At that point the major powers had promised to pressure the Bosnian Serbs into agreement, refusing all direct negotiation with them until they accepted the map.

7.   Britain had refused direct negotiations until the IRA disarmed, but the commission proposed that talks begin while an incremental disarming was under way.

8.   But North Korea has pressed for direct negotiations with the United States in a bid to isolate South Korea.

9.   But NATO is also reluctant to get into any direct negotiations with Milosevic, instead using the Russians as a go-between.

10.   Clinton made his sixth appearance at the Wye River conference center for direct negotiations with Netanyahu and Arafat.