51.   Muslim secessionist leader Salamat Hashim is prepared to meet President Joseph Estrada to push peace talks forward in the southern Philippines, the chief rebel negotiator said Wednesday.

52.   Negotiations could move on to social and economic reforms demanded by the guerrillas, chief rebel negotiator Luis Jalandoni said.

53.   On the eve of more talks on ending the war in Chechnya, a rebel negotiator on Sunday expressed little hope for any real steps toward peace.

54.   Officials welcomed the decision to release the officers, whose capture prompted President Joseph Estrada to suspend peace talks with the NDF and withdraw safety guarantees for rebel negotiators.

55.   Peace talks between government officials and rebel negotiators began Saturday at a secret location in Geneva.

56.   Rebel negotiators have accused him of hindering the peace talks, which have been bogged down for months.

57.   Rebel negotiators accused him of hindering peace talks, which have been bogged down for months.

58.   Rebel negotiators arrived in a white Red Cross sedan shortly after Education Minister Domingo Palermo and members of an international mediation team had entered the house.

59.   Rebel negotiators stayed in their hotel Friday.

60.   Rebel negotiators, who completed an acrimonious round of peace talks with the government Wednesday night, then boarded Red Cross trucks to return to their mountain villages.