111.  The talks involved the UN, aid agencies and ECOMOG, the African peacekeeping force in Liberia.

112.  The three burnt helicopters had been given by the United States to the African peacekeeping force, ECOMOG, only a few weeks earlier.

113.  The state council has also ratified the immediate withdrawal of all armed groups from Monrovia and the simultaneous citywide deployment of the African peacekeeping force, ECOMOG.

114.  The US ambassador Tuesday urged the countries of an African peacekeeping force in Liberia to stay in the war-ravaged country to help salvage a sputtering peace process.

115.  The withdrawing French troops are being replaced by an African peacekeeping force, of which Ghanaian troops have already begun moving in.

116.  They also claimed three demonstrators were shot there by members of the African peacekeeping force ECOMOG trying to defend the building.

117.  Two Liberian factions Tuesday resumed talks in a town just outside Monrovia aimed at getting two key highways reopened, the African peacekeeping force ECOMOG said in a statement.

118.  Two rival militias here have agreed to begin lifting land mines on a key highway in central Liberia, the African peacekeeping force ECOMOG said Wednesday.

119.  Western countries Tuesday backed plans to set up an African peacekeeping force during an international meeting of political and military experts here, an Egyptian official said.

120.  WEU ministers envisaged that any international operation would have to be followed up by a purely African force.