1.   Michio Watanabe, former vice premier.

2.   Di Rupo is economics and telecommunications minister and one of four vice premiers.

3.   Few changes are expected, although Foreign Minister John Chang will be made vice premier, the media reports.

4.   Serbian vice premier Tratko Markovic opened the session with a speech blasting NATO, but he did not reject sending a delegation to France.

5.   Serbian vice premier Ratko Markovic opened the session with a speech blasting NATO, but he did not reject sending a delegation to France.

6.   The loans will help Bulgaria upgrade and develop its railways, motorways and airports, privatize tourist sites and accomplish agrarian reform, vice premier Alexander Bozhkov told BTA.

7.   The loans will help Bulgaria upgrade and develop its railways, motorways and airports, privatize tourist sites and accomplish agrarian reform, vice premier Alexader Bozhkov told BTA.

8.   The president issued a decree naming Pavlo Lazarenko, a Soviet-era collective farm boss and former vice premier, to the post.

9.   Vice premier Serhiy Tyhypko said the government hopes to continue working with the IMF to meet the terms of the long-term loan.

10.   Federation President Kresimir Zubak, vice premier and defence minister Jadranko Prlic, and Roso were among those present on the Croat side.