1.   Not to be outdone, Microsoft recently hosted a ministry delegation at the Microsoft campus in discussions that included the projects.

2.   Paris -- Two days of talks begin between French and Romanian foreign ministry delegations.

3.   An Italian foreign ministry delegation left on Tuesday for Iraq to explore the possibility of setting up an interest section in Baghdad.

4.   Duatepe, who led a three-member foreign ministry delegation into northern Iraq this week.

5.   Milliyet wrote that a foreign ministry delegation would visit again soon to finalize the arms shipment deal.

6.   General Fahim, who has been invited by Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, is to head a senior defence ministry delegation, they said.

7.   He also said a Pakistan foreign ministry delegation was due in Kabul later Thursday preparing the ground for the reopening of the embassy there.

8.   Iran has sent a foreign ministry delegation to Beirut to discuss the crisis.

9.   A Chinese foreign ministry delegation will visit South Korea this week to talk about conclusion of a fisheries agreement and North Korean escapees in China, officials said Sunday.

10.   A foreign ministry delegation ended on Sunday a three-day mission to Riyadh to defuse tension over the flogging.