11.   Some ministers, including Sir Geoffrey Howe, the foreign secretary, are simply not interested in environmental issues.

12.   Herbert Morrison, the foreign secretary, was among the more belligerent.

13.   As expected, Michael Prescott became deputy prime minister, Gordon Brown the chancellor of the Exchequer, Robin Cook the foreign secretary and Jack Straw the home secretary.

14.   At the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Irish foreign secretary, Dick Spring, called for work to resume on a peaceful settlement.

15.   Before coming to Washington in January as ambassador, he was an assistant foreign secretary in the Sri Lankan government.

16.   Blair equally quickly dropped Robin Cook as foreign secretary.

17.   According to Indian officials, Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani foreign secretary, arrived in the capital with a communique from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

18.   After a visit here by the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, and before a visit by Rumsfeld, Musharraf said he welcomed outside efforts to ease tensions.

19.   After three days of talks, the foreign secretaries of the two countries agreed to make Kashmir an issue for separate discussion within broader negotiations aimed at achieving detente.

20.   British foreign secretary Robin Cook was in Bonn, as was French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine.