51.   Agency reports said that Chechens handed over three armored personnel carriers and Russian forces withdrew an airborne battalion.

52.   Arab intelligence agencies report Syria has developed VX and has begun installing it on its surface-to-surface missiles, Haaretz reported.

53.   Attacks on politicians, anti-fascist organisations and a religious group were also planned, according to the agency reports which quoted unnamed sources in the Russian counter-espionage service FSK.

54.   UNITA earlier affirmed it would go ahead with the signing as scheduled, agency reports said.

55.   Rwandan Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu Monday rejected claims in a UN agency internal report that his government had organised systematic massacres of returning Hutus.

56.   The agency report did not give details of the price paid by both countries for the launches.