1.   So we have tried to stop this fighting and normalize the situation in Lebanon and specifically in the southern part of Lebanon.

2.   Dreading an influx of refugees, Greece has taken a leading role in efforts to help normalize the situation in Albania.

3.   Yeltsin said it was important now to concentrate on political and diplomatic ways to normalize the situation in Iraq.

4.   Interfax said he and Avturkhanov had agreed on measures to normalize the situation in Chechnya.