31.   A further trouble flared on Friday after Pierre Tartout -- who as prefect is the senior French official in the territory -- refused to meet a delegation of students.

32.   Activists for non-violence turned out in a protest at the airport to meet the delegation, which included men who had served prison time for murder and terrorist acts.

33.   Armenian President Levon Ter Petrossian met the delegation on Thursday, and later he and Mohammad-Khan opened a branch of an Iranian bank in the Armenian capital.

34.   Azeri President Heidar Aliyev is due to meet the delegation Tuesday.

35.   Biljana Plavsic, president of the Bosnian Serb entity, met a delegation of the sacked general staff of dismissed army commander General Ratko Mladic on Monday.

36.   But Dudayev said he was willing to meet the delegation, amid indications that he viewed the soldiers as a possible bargaining chip to stave off further raids.

37.   Chernomyrdin was also due to meet a delegation of the Kuwaiti chamber of commerce and industry, several prominent economic figures and bankers to discuss private sector cooperation.

38.   During his visit, Frckoski will meet a delegation of MPs and give lectures in the Royal Academy in London.

39.   Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van Mierlo met the delegation and they pledged each other their full support.

40.   The Spanish President of the European Parliament, Jose Maria Gil-Robles also refused to meet the delegation, despite repeated approaches.