21.   With many mujahedin fighters in tears, Karzai embraced outgoing president Burhanuddin Rabbani in the first peaceful transfer of power in decades between recognised Afghan governments.

22.   It was the first such transfer to be carried out by the Lebanese authorities.

23.   It was the first transfer of such shares into foreign hands.

24.   Rene Preval was sworn in as president of Haiti Wednesday, succeeding Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the first peaceful transfer of power between two democratically elected presidents.