31.   Both have this week urged Milosevic to stop the offensive and urgently start talks with Rugova on the future status of the Kosovo province within Yugoslavia.

32.   But the Israelis also said Yasser Arafat has hardened the Palestinian position on unsettled issues, none more intractable than the future status of Jerusalem.

33.   Earlier, another Serbian official, Vojislav Zivkovic, speaking from the chateau, said the agenda Sunday included the future status of Kosovo and security matters.

34.   Ethnic Albanians had hoped the U.S.-brokered Dayton peace conference that ended the Bosnian war would also determine the future status of Kosovo.

35.   His future status was uncertain.

36.   However, Komnenic also set out limits on future status of Kosovo.

37.   However, the two sides apparently did not reach agreement on the future status of the breakaway province.

38.   In return the state would have to guarantee acceptance of any consensus reached over the future status of the region, even if this turned out to be independence.

39.   It is particularly important that President Milosevic has assumed personal responsibility in the search for a resolution of problems of Kosovo, including future status.

40.   Its future status will be determined in talks between the Palestinians and Israel which are expected to start this year.