11.   Every team meeting is preceded by prayers and a hymn and a Christian prayer meeting is held early in the evening.

12.   Nemtsov said the meeting would precede a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations plus Russia.

13.   The EU move precedes a meeting next Wednesday in Brussels of Balkan aid donors, co-chaired by the EU Commission and the World Bank.

14.   The ITAR-Tass and Interfax news agencies initially said the meeting would be preceded by a summit meeting between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

15.   The GCC gathering precedes a meeting of the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries, scheduled for Tuesday in Vienna, Austria.

16.   The meeting will be preceded by a dinner Monday night with Russian Foreign Minister Yevegeny Primakov.

17.   The ministerial meeting will be preceded by the NAM Senior Officials Meeting on Monday.

18.   The Stockholm meeting is preceded by meetings between Peres and Arafat this week in Brussels, Belgium, on the next stage of the peace talks.

19.   The plenary meeting was preceded by a four-way reconcilation committee meeting in December.

20.   Russia is to boycott the parley which precedes a meeting of Contact Group foreign ministers and Balkan leaders in Moscow on Saturday.