1.   A spokesman for Mobutu said on state-run television that a seven-member delegation would negotiate an end to the war.

2.   But sources close to Goodby said the two firms are negotiating an end to the partnership.

3.   Efforts to negotiate an end to all three conflicts have failed so far.

4.   The South African president has negotiated an end to white-minority rule.

5.   France has been the holdout in trying to negotiate an end to the dispute.

6.   America cannot negotiate an end to this crisis.

7.   As a Kremlin aide, he risked the wrath of Russian nationalists by negotiating an end to the conflict in Chechnya.

8.   As part of a deal and its troop withdrawal, Israel would want to negotiate an end to border skirmishes between its troops and Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon.

9.   Authorities on the scene negotiated an end to the day-long siege, but at least one person was killed in a gun battle.

10.   But Annan stressed that whatever the Security Council decided, efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting would continue.