11.   The European Communities did not abandon their peace efforts but could claim no concrete progress by the end of the month.

12.   Concern remained that the peace effort had been seriously undermined.

13.   All were at least partly responsibility for the current collapse of peace efforts, one senior Jordanian official said.

14.   Also, the main opposition leaders, like Sheik Ahmed Yassin of the radical Islamic group Hamas, did not accept his call for unity behind the peace effort.

15.   Although the United Nations has a new representative in place, Issa Diallo, it is unclear whether the peace effort can be put back together again.

16.   American officials, however, have made clear in recent months that they consider any settlement activity an obstacle to the peace effort.

17.   American diplomats say the involvement of the council, and to some extent the United Nations in general, is not helpful in Mideast peace efforts.

18.   Amid worsening economic conditions and a freeze in peace efforts, many Palestinians accuse the authority of corruption, abuse of power and violating the rule of law.

19.   An eventual withdrawal would appear as a gesture of cooperation with the American peace effort.

20.   And I feel very good that we are in better shape than we were six, eight months ago with our peace efforts in Bosnia.