61.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze met Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Monday and said his country would open an embassy in Israel by the end of the year.

62.   Greece is to open an embassy in Sarajevo, Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos said Wednesday after meeting his Bosnian counterpart, Jadranko Prlic.

63.   He visited Israel earlier this month, opening an embassy in Tel Aviv.

64.   In Jerusalem, Palestine Liberation Organization officials warned the United States against opening an embassy there.

65.   In Jerusalem, Palestine Liberation Organization officials also warned the United States against opening an embassy there.

66.   Israel and Jordan on Sunday established full diplomatic relations and prepared for the first time to open embassies and appoint ambassadors.

67.   Israel and Jordan will mandate their teams in Amman and Tel Aviv on Thursday to finalise technical details for opening their embassies.

68.   A three-day Japanese film festival opened on Friday in the capital of Tajikistan, an impoverished Central Asian state where Japan recently opened an embassy.

69.   According to a Senegalese government statement, published in Dakar on Wednesday, the two governments are about to open embassies in Dakar and Taipei.

70.   Britain opened an embassy in North Korea at the end of July, seven months after relations between the countries were formally established.