31.   The report had been billed as an important part of restoring confidence in a peace process already undermined by renewed Irish Republican Army violence.

32.   The Shas political agenda is generally conservative and the party has not used its political influence to move the peace process forward.

33.   Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring was to meet here with Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew late in the evening on ways to move the developing peace process forward.

34.   Belgian Foreign Minister Erik Derycke expressed concern about the Middle East peace process here Tuesday and criticized an Israeli plan to build a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

35.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic met international mediators David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg for talks on the stalled Bosnian peace process, news agency SRNA reported Friday.

36.   Belgian Foreign Minister Erik Derycce expressed concern about the Middle East peace process here Tuesday and criticized an Israeli plan to build a new Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

37.   But she stressed that it was the responsibility of the international community as well as Israel and the Palestinian Authority to work to move the peace process forward.

38.   Clinton has made the Mideast peace process a top priority in his administration but the troop withdrawal has presented a tough obstacle to reaching a comprehensive agreement.

39.   Egypt urged Israel on Tuesday to implement its Middle East peace process commitments and warned that the world will not let it toy with peace.

40.   US President Bill Clinton began talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about the Middle East peace process here Wednesday.