21.   U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott planned to meet EU envoy Martti Ahtisaari at the Cologne airport before Ahtisaari briefs the summit.

22.   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he expects to meet Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin but cautioned against a quick political solution to the Kosovo conflict.

23.   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he expects to meet Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin but cautioned that a peace deal on Kosovo was far from imminent.

24.   Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman and deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley met NATO envoys Tuesday.

25.   He refused to meet an envoy dispatched from Tokyo over the weekend.

26.   Another opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic, left here for Geneva to meet US envoy John Kornblum who is responsible for European and Canadian affairs for the Washington administration.

27.   Boutros-Ghali had already met US envoy Madeleine Albright and John Weston of Britain on Friday.

28.   Three of them met the envoy later that day.

29.   Perry, on a tour in th Balkans, went instead Friday to the Croatian capital Zagreb where he met UN envoy Yasushi Akashi.

30.   Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic met US envoy James Pardue for talks Tuesday on military aspects of the Dayton peace accord on Bosnia, Tanjug news agency reported.