11.   Kwanje said a week ago Khartoum requested Kenya, which chairs the talks, to convene a meeting beginning Monday.

12.   Milutinovic wants to chair direct talks with the ethnic Albanians, with international officials in attendance but not as mediators.

13.   On several occasions Moi has chaired talks aimed at ending the conflict in southern Sudan.

14.   President Milan Milutinovic had proposed over the weekend to chair face-to-face talks with the ethnic Albanians in Pristina on Wednesday, with international officials in attendance.

15.   Serb President Milan Milutinovic had proposed chairing face-to-face talks with the ethnic Albanians in Pristina, with international officials in attendance as guests but not as active mediators.

16.   The closed-door talks were chaired by Eric Silwamba, minister of state in the office of Zambian President Frederick Chiluba.

17.   The diplomats chairing the talks, Istvan Gyarmati of Hungary and Viekling Eide of Norway, blamed Bosnian Serbs and Serb-led Yugoslavia for the delays.

18.   The responsibility for the delays lie with Bosnian Serbs and Yugoslavia, according to the diplomats chairing the talks, Hungarian Istvan Gyarmati and Norwegia Viekling Eide.

19.   The talks are being chaired by a Zambian official and included representatives of Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania.

20.   The talks have been chaired by Jamsheed Marker of Pakistan, whom Annan appointed as the new special envoy for East Timor.