11.   The Palestinians have little faith in the new envoy.

12.   The United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, has yet to appoint a new special envoy for Myanmar to coordinate international efforts to bring pressure on the junta.

13.   While Kazantsev threatened the rebel fighters, the Kremlin named its new envoy to federal-controlled Chechnya, Nikolai Koshman.

14.   Powell also talked by phone to the new U.S. envoy to the Middle East, William Burns, Boucher said, to discuss peace talks.

15.   President Cheddi Jagan accepted the credentials of a new U.S. envoy to Guyana Thursday, as American officials announced a trebling of food aid to Guyana.

16.   Pope John Paul II on Saturday named an Italian prelate to be his new envoy to Israel.

17.   A new United Nations envoy to Tajikistan, Slovak diplomat Jan Kubis, presented his credentials to President Emomali Rakhmonov on Friday.

18.   A meeting of West Bank security chiefs was arranged at the urging of the new U.S. envoy, William Burns.

19.   Alfonso Gagliano was the public works minister under Prime Minister Jean Chretien until Tuesday, when he was named the new Canadian envoy to Denmark in a Cabinet reshuffle.

20.   Annan appointed a new special envoy for East Timor, Jamsheed Marker of Pakistan.