41.   Ecuadorean President Sixto Duran-Ballen warned that Ecuador would boycott the talks if there was no unconditional cease-fire.

42.   Ethnic Albanian leaders have accused Serbia of blocking food deliveries to Kosovo since last weekend and signaled they might boycott the talks in protest.

43.   Ethnic Albanians boycott talks with Serbs again.

44.   Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan and legislative council speaker Ahmed Qureia, who had boycotted talks for months, also joined the Palestinian team.

45.   He said he was disappointed by some of the parties involved in the conflict who boycotted the talks in Sun City, South Africa.

46.   Hours before the announcement, the opposition said they would boycott reconciliation talks with the government unless Fujimori acted.

47.   Industry had threatened to boycott the talks, but its representatives attended after Schroeder warned that it was in their own interests to show up.

48.   Last week, U.S.-hosted security talks between the two sides were hampered when top Palestinian experts, despite a promise by Arafat, boycotted the talks.

49.   Late last week, the government had said it would boycott the talks.

50.   Lebanon and Syria, which will also stay away, have boycotted multilateral talks on Arab-Israeli economic cooperation.