91.   Kumaratunga initiated the talks with the LTTE after coming to power in August.

92.   Johnsen has called on the Norwegian government to initiate talks on a Nordic economic cooperation that might help the push for a Swedish withdrawal.

93.   King Hussein also recalled that the United States had sent envoys to Haiti to initiate talks with the authorities there.

94.   Outgoing President Andres Pastrana initiated peace talks with both the FARC and the ELN, but broke off talks with the FARC in February, after three years.

95.   Political sources said the League has already initiated talks with the JP and other smaller parties.

96.   President Fidel Ramos, himself a former general, has initiated peace talks with the communists, but formal discussions are yet to start.

97.   Ramos has also initiated peace talks with Moslem guerrillas in the south and with right-wing army coup plotters.

98.   Russian troops and Chechen separatist rebels clashed in the southern village of Goiskoye on Thursday despite tentative moves to initiate peace talks.

99.   That party may call for a ceasefire and initiate talks with us.

100.   The chief minister urged the federal government to also initiate talks with ULFA in order to bring an end to separatist violence.