1.   Secretary of State Colin Powell has secured a promise from Uzbekistan to reopen the Freedom Bridge, which would establish an aid corridor to the north.

2.   Another aid corridor through Quetta, Pakistan is closed and drivers are also unwilling to go through the Kandahar region.

3.   France had proposed the council authorize sending a multinational force to eastern Zaire to reopen aid corridors closed by the fighting between Tutsi rebels and the Zairian army.

4.   He called for the urgent opening of aid corridors into the tiny West African state wedged between Senegal and Guinea, Lusa said.

5.   Kinkel called for a cease-fire in Zaire and an opening of humanitarian aid corridors to bring relief to refugees and needy Zairians.

6.   Muratovic charged that envoy Yasushi Akashi had lost his legitimacy because his headquarters rejected a U.N. military plan to force open an aid corridor into Sarajevo.

7.   The Angolan government on Tuesday turned down an urgent appeal from the World Food Program to create humanitarian aid corridors, saying the timing was not right.

8.   The aid corridors would allow food and medicine to get through to hundreds of thousands of refugees in camps and allow them to return to Rwanda.

9.   The shipment came after more than a week of negotiations with Afghan drivers and could open the way for an aid corridor into western Afghanistan.

10.   The U.N. World Food Program is trying to persuade Uzbekistan to open the northern aid corridor, the once-vital supply route for humanitarian aid to northern Afghanistan.