21.   Implementation of some parts of the military accord began this week.

22.   Makhashev is a member of the Chechen delegation to peace talks, which produced a military accord in July that included prisoner exchanges.

23.   Maslov was meeting with members of a commission observing implementation of the military accord, the report said.

24.   Meanwhile, fighting continued to rage in the mountainous Muslim region where a largely ignored July military accord has called for a partial Russian troop withdrawal and rebel disarmament.

25.   NATO wants the Yugoslavs to sign a military accord that will include a specific timing for the withdrawal of Serb troops from Kosovo.

26.   President Boris Yeltsin went on national television Thursday to praise a military accord signed in Chechnya and promise Russians a long-awaited peace in the breakaway republic.

27.   Pushing ahead with a military accord despite recent violence, Russian and Chechen negotiators agree Wednesday on rebel disarmament and troop withdrawal from two more regions of Chechnya.

28.   Russia signed a series of military accords with its southern neighbor Georgia on Monday despite a recent downturn in relations between the two countries.

29.   Russian and rebel negotiators are to meet in the village of Starye Atagi on Wednesday to discuss the implementation and military accord.

30.   Smoldering violence and another failure Tuesday to exchange prisoners put further doubts over the fate of a military accord signed between Russian and Chechen forces last month.