41.   Excerpts of the meeting were made public in a news release from the presidential press office.

42.   Excerpts of the meeting was made public in a news release from the presidential press office.

43.   French President Jacques Chirac will attend a trilateral meeting this week in Moscow with President Boris Yeltsin and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the presidential press service said Monday.

44.   Gen. Jean-Pierre Kelche arrived in Bishkek, the capital, and met with President Askar Akayev, the presidential press service said.

45.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze accepted the resignation of his security minister Saturday, the presidential press service said.

46.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze checked into the central military hospital Thursday to have a kidney stone removed, the presidential press service said.

47.   He had no meetings or work scheduled for Saturday, the presidential press service said.

48.   He also gave deputy chief of staff Sergei Prikhodko a second job as head of the presidential foreign policy department, the presidential press service said.

49.   He replaces Vitaly Artyukhov, who resigned this week, the presidential press service said.

50.   However, the French presidential press office said Chirac had no immediate reaction to the dismissal of the Russian government by Yeltsin that was announced early Monday.