1.   Consider a country that has no commercial or other relations with either of two warring parties.

2.   His first aim is to get the warring parties back to the negotiating table .

3.   Meetings proposed towards the end of September between representatives of the three warring parties -- the forces of Taylor, Johnson and Nimley -- came to nothing.

4.   A breakthrough was made in September in the search for a peaceful settlement of the Cambodian conflict when the warring parties agreed to implement a UN peace plan.

5.   Although such a withdrawal is not regarded as imminent, preparations for one increase the pressure on the warring parties to make peace.

6.   And under the Dayton accord, the warring parties are required to hand over indicted war criminals.

7.   As a result, Kozyrev said the best route now is to coax the warring parties to take small steps toward peace.

8.   As NATO planes continued bombing Bosnian Serb positions Thursday, diplomats reported a potential breakthrough in efforts to bring the warring parties to the negotiating table.

9.   As the United States prepared to open crucial negotiations on Wednesday to end the Bosnian war, President Clinton urged the warring parties to make peace.

10.   Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke then embarked on many weeks of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at bringing the warring parties to the conference table.