21.   In recent weeks, SOCAR has been conducting intensive talks with Western oil companies, as well as Turkey and Iran.

22.   Intensive talks between the leaders of the divided communities restarted in January after a four-year interruption.

23.   Intensive talks are underway through the defense and foreign ministries to resolve the problem, Interfax said.

24.   Intensive talks were underway through the defense and foreign ministries to resolve the dispute over the Russian peacekeepers, Interfax said.

25.   Palestinian and Israeli negotiators on Monday headed into a second day of intensive talks to try to hammer out the framework of a peace treaty.

26.   Representatives of the two companies have held intensive talks in the United States over the past few days, said the spokesman.

27.   Russian, U.S. and Finnish officials on Wednesday ended two days of intensive talks on the Kosovo crisis without announcement of a final proposal.

28.   Russian, U.S. and Finnish officials on Wednesday ended two days of intensive talks on the Kosovo crisis without announcing a final proposal.

29.   Russian, U.S. and Finnish officials on Wednesday ended two days of intensive talks on the Kosovo crisis without reaching a final proposal.

30.   Syrian President Hafez Assad held intensive talks with his Lebanese counterpart Friday on the deteriorating situation in southern Lebanon.