11.   Xhemail Mustafa is a spokesman for Ibrahim Rugova, a pacifist political leader and a member of the Albanian delegation to the Kosovo peace talks underway outside Paris.

12.   Investors focused on talks underway in Washington to cut the federal debt, La Varnway said.

13.   Abu Messameh represented HAMAS at talks currently underway between opposition groups and the Palestinian self-rule authority aimed at easing tension in the Gaza Strip.

14.   Belgium on Wednesday refused to comment on its absence from the talks underway in South Africa.

15.   The two men were to discuss the peace talks underway in Lusaka in Zambia.

16.   Sinn Fein has been excluded from multi-party peace talks underway here because of the Anglo-Irish condition that the IRA first reinstate the ceasefire.

17.   Talks underway between Daewoo Motor, the Warsaw government and Polish creditors are aimed at deferring factory closures through restructuring the Polish production sites.

18.   The French minister said he hoped that talks underway between Israel and the Palestinians to spread self-rule across the West Bank would be successful.