21.   Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Tarasov said Tuesday that the summit participants may also discuss the conditions of ethnic Russians in Latvia and Estonia.

22.   Hashimoto told Major he was trying to persuade other summit participants that the four countries should be included, a said Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kazuo Kodama.

23.   Hashimoto told summit participants Friday that Suharto also told him Indonesia was about to agree to a new bailout plan with the IMF.

24.   Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto responded by assuring summit participants that Japan was working hard to fix the weak economy and that Japan would not start a global recession.

25.   On the economic side, Japan will not be quite as lonely, since the United States is the only summit participant whose economy is performing well.

26.   On Saturday, summit participants will discuss how to launch new reform talks and issue a formal declaration laying out how an expanded EU will work.

27.   Other summit participants are also faithful, just with less gusto.

28.   On Saturday, the summit participants will discuss how to launch new reform talks and issue a formal declaration laying out how an expanded EU will work.

29.   One hospital reduced surgeries to emergency cases only to keep its operating rooms open in case they are needed to treat summit participants and canceled staff vacations.

30.   Russia was clearly no longer an outsider among the other summit participants.