41.   EU leaders start three-days of summit talks Thursday that were supposed to renew their commitment to pushing through the expansion quickly.

42.   Hashimoto had already apologized for the remarks at the beginning of the summit talks in the southwestern Japan city of Beppu on Saturday.

43.   He added that there is more agreement between the nations participating in the summit talks than in past years.

44.   Hariri and President Elias Hrawi have scheduled weekend summit talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad on the explosive south Lebanon situation in Damascus.

45.   He said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had discussed press freedom in their summit talks.

46.   Hungary and South Korea held summit talks Thursday and agreed to increase trade and investment ties, government officials said.

47.   Horn was scheduled to have summit talks with President Kim Young-sam on Thursday to discuss boosting South Korean investment in Hungary and other bilateral issues.

48.   In an unusual public airing of their rift, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended summit talks Friday deeply divided over NATO expansion.

49.   In the summit talks at the border village, negotiators have focused on procedural matters.

50.   Kabila has met with the Rwandan and Ugandan presidents at past summit talks.