101.   EU Agriculture Commissioner, Franz Fischler, who also attended the talks, said the EU would not be held hostage by its trading partners over farm subsidies.

102.   Ethnic Albanian leaders in the southern Serbian province have refused to attend talks with Serb officials in Pristina, saying they want foreign mediators present at any such talks.

103.   Ethnic Albanian leaders refused again Wednesday to attend talks with Serb officials in Pristina.

104.   EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler, who also attended the talks, said the EU would not be held hostage by its trading partners over farm subsidies.

105.   Expected to attend the talks were the heads of the exchanges of Paris, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan, Madrid, Stockholm and Zurich.

106.   Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was also to attend the talks.

107.   First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh and other government officials were to attend the talks.

108.   Foreign Minister Carolos Papoulias has accepted an invitation from U.N. mediator Cyrus Vance to attend the talks in New York, Foreign Ministry spokesman Constantine Bikas said.

109.   Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings said he was disappointed by the refusal of Taylor and his chief ally, warlord Alhaji Kromah, to attend the talks.

110.   Government representatives refused to attend talks originally scheduled to begin Thursday morning.