91.   Earlier Tuesday, seven people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a wave of bomb attacks on a convoy of rebel negotiators and international mediators.

92.   Unidentified gunmen opened fire Tuesday on a column carrying Chechen rebel negotiators and OSCE international mediators back from Chechen-Russian peace talks, Interfax news agency reported.

93.   Kabila spoke as government and rebel negotiators pursued closed-door talks in Pretoria, South Africa on a possible ceasefire in the rebel offensive that began in October.

94.   On Monday Russian and Chechen rebel negotiators reached agreement on a pullout of Russian troops by the end of August.

95.   Peace talks in Chechnya restarted Thursday after the Russian military authorities in Grozny apologised to Chechen rebel negotiators for a border incident, a Russian television station said.

96.   Philippine government and Moslem rebel negotiators held a flurry of informal meetings here Friday ahead of key peace talks, delegates said.

97.   Philippine government and Moslem rebel negotiators on Sunday announced progress in their peace talks which they said could lead to a final peace settlement this year.

98.   Rebel negotiator Bizima Kahara visited Gabon on Thursday for talks but declined all comment after his return to Lubumbashi.

99.   Rebel negotiator Frank Mugambage warned the incident, of which he accused government forces of being accomplices, could jeopardize the future of the talks.

100.   Rebel Serb negotiator Milan Milanovic signed the agreement on the return of eastern Slavonia which was seized four years ago along with chief Croatian negotiator Hrvoje Sarinic.