41.   New U.N. envoys from India and Pakistan reaffirm commitment to U.N.

42.   New envoy appointed to Sierra Leone.

43.   Pope John Paul II has named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new envoy to Cuba, the Vatican said Saturday.

44.   Sudan said Thursday it welcomed the possibility of a new special envoy, but said Washington should be unbiased.

45.   Sudan welcomes the possibility U.S. President George W. Bush will appoint a new special envoy to the war-ravaged country, but said Washington should be unbiased.

46.   South Korea earlier had named former Prime Minister Lee Hong-koo as its new envoy to the United States.

47.   The agreement came as new U.S. envoy William Burns held a second round of meetings with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

48.   Sudan said Thursday it would work with a new U.S. envoy so long as Washington pursued an impartial policy.

49.   The new envoy, the first appointed under President Bush, was to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later Sunday.

50.   The new envoys also did not make any speeches during the ceremony.