21.   The Communist rebels and the government of his successor, Corazon Aquino, held unsuccessful talks shortly after his ouster.

22.   The two held talks on ways to improve oil prices, the agency said.

23.   The two ministers held talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, touching on Kosovo, defense technology cooperation and other issues, the Interfax news agency said.

24.   U.S. Middle East envoy William Burns has been meeting both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and held talks Sunday with Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

25.   German intelligence coordinator Bernd Schmidbauer, who negotiated an exchange of prisoners and bodies between Israel and Hezbollah, held new talks Friday with Lebanese and Hezbollah officials.

26.   However, the threat was annulled after Lebed held talks with Maskhadov and Russian commanders Wednesday, and announced that there would be no more ultimatums.

27.   In mid-February, Haider drew US anger when he first travelled to Baghdad and held talks with President Saddam Hussein, with whom he was photographed shaking hands.

28.   In separate talks, Rabin, who is also defense minister, held talks with South Korean Defense Minister Rhee Byoung-Tae.

29.   In mid-February, Haider drew US anger when he first travelled to Baghdad and held talks with Saddam, with whom he was photographed shaking hands.

30.   Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov flew in from Moscow and held talks with the head of the pro-Russian Chechen government Doku Zavgayev, Interfax news agency reported.