31.   Hun Sen also said the election allowed multi-political parties to participate in the commune councils which was aimed at discentralising power to the local level.

32.   Inkatha leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Monday his party would not participate in the hearings.

33.   A key point of the accord was to delay elections until Russian troops had pulled out and all Chechen parties could participate.

34.   Ait Ahmed said his party would however participate in legislative elections promised for the first half of next year.

35.   All major political parties are participating in the election with Bhutto seeking a vindication of her contention that her dismissal was unjustified.

36.   Arafat also said he had authorized three parties to participate in the elections.

37.   Bosnian television reported that the Serb party had not participated in the Ban Brdo meeting, which nonetheless proceeded under the aegis of Russian IFOR troops.

38.   Bhutto said it had not yet decided whether her party would participate in the elections, adding the party leadership would make the decision collectively.

39.   Bhutto, denying the allegations, has challenged her dismissal in the Supreme Court, but she has vowed her party will participate in the elections.

40.   But Saturday the CUF leader in Zanzibar, Musobi Mageni, said his party would participate in the national poll.