61.   Discussions are already going on in foreign ministries around the world, diplomats said.

62.   Diplomacy is an exhausting business, with all those late dinners followed by pre-breakfast e-mail rockets from foreign ministries in distant time zones.

63.   Foreign Minister Rosario Green, who replaced Jose Angel Gurria earlier this month, called those envoys home to assume other duties at the foreign ministry.

64.   France is the first of several countries expected to get new ambassadors from Mexico sometime this year, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.

65.   French foreign ministry officials were said to be aghast.

66.   Frustration over her behavior reached a high point late last week when foreign ministry bureaucrats openly ridiculed her and she faced a grilling from opposition politicians in parliament.

67.   Foreign ministries would trip over one another in their rush to call for his release.

68.   Foreign ministry officials regularly deny NATO allegations that Serbian forces are committing atrocities in Kosovo.

69.   Hashmatullah Moslih, of the Northern Alliance foreign ministry, said the United States should re-establish a diplomatic presence here to avoid being surprised again.

70.   He had been petitioning Mexico for asylum for a month, meeting with senior foreign ministry and national security officials, said Rafael Alvarez, a human rights advocate.