61.   The proposal was intended to open discussion on the issue and ministers were not expected to make a decision on it, he said.

62.   The talks are designed to get Israel to yield more territory to the Palestinians and to open discussions about a Palestinian state and the future of Jerusalem.

63.   The two leaders opened their discussions immediately.

64.   Tuesday, commerce ministry officials from the two countries opened discussions on boosting trade.

65.   U.S. State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said on Friday that the United States and Turkey will open discussions next week to review Operation Provide Comfort.

66.   With North Korea only weeks away from widespread famine, Red Cross officials from North Korea and South Korea opened discussions Saturday on deliveries of emergency food aid.

67.   Greece wants to open discussions as quickly as possible with Macedonia on renaming the former Yugoslav republic, foreign ministry spokesman Costas Bikas said Friday.

68.   He called on India and Pakistan to open discussions in an attempt to avoid armed conflict over the disputed territory of Kashmir, to which both countries lay claim.

69.   A lawyer for former Barings trader Nick Leeson has opened discussions with Singapore investigators on undisclosed issues ahead of his expected trial here, the Straits Times reported Thursday.

70.   At that time Israel and the PLO agreed to open discussions on the issue two years after Palestinian self rule took hold in Gaza and the West Bank.