21.   Yemen said Tuesday it will appoint an ambassador and resume flights to Eritrea now that a dispute between the two countries over a Red Sea archipelago is resolved.

22.   Yeltsin also has signed decrees appointing new ambassadors to Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Finland and Lithuania, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

23.   France had pressed its European partners to recognise federal Yugoslavia comprised of Serbia and Montenegro and said it planned to appoint an ambassador to Belgrade in the near future.

24.   He did not say when a new ambassador would be appointed.

25.   In a statement, it said Britain would upgrade its diplomatic representation in Belgrade by appointing an ambassador.

26.   Israel and Jordan on Sunday established full diplomatic relations and prepared for the first time to open embassies and appoint ambassadors.

27.   Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Monday after the treaty had been initialled that the two neighbours will appoint ambassadors at the end of November.

28.   A new British ambassador was appointed to Sudan in January this year.

29.   A senior State Department official described the move as largely symbolic because the US does not have an ambassador appointed to Afghanistan.

30.   Chinese President Jiang Zemin appointed new ambassadors to Pakistan, the Philippines and New Zealand on Friday, the official Xinhua news agency announced.