11.   Presidents Hafez al Assad of Syria and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt hold talks in Alexandria.

12.   The Baker-Mubarak plan for Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo came to nothing.

13.   He held cordial talks in complete agreement with the Chinese Communist Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, with President Yang Shangkun and with Premier Li Peng.

14.   In October Baker and Nguyen Co Thach also held talks in New York, a significant move towards the resumption of diplomatic relations.

15.   After talks in Moscow with Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Shevardnadze, Vellayati visited the republics of Kazkahstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.

16.   The action was highly controversial, occurring mid-way through the second phase of Middle East peace talks in Washington.

17.   The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas.

18.   The move was widely interpreted as a gesture towards Israel, the announcement coinciding with the start of the fifth round of Middle East peace talks in Washington.

19.   Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou had earlier in the month held talks in Algiers with his Algerian counterpart, Sid-Ahmed Ghozali.

20.   The longstanding dispute was resolved following talks in Rome between Albanian and UK officials.