111.  After a period of transition, Washington plans to hand off the mission to a U.N. peacekeeping force that would be half American.

112.  After Western nations made it clear they had no interest in assembling a U.N. peacekeeping force for Abkhazia, Shevardnadze cut a deal with the Russians.

113.  After the latest fighting, Johnson said that to entrust his security to the West African peacekeeping force was tantamount to accepting the slaughter of his own men.

114.  After weeks of wrangling, NATO and Russia agreed on a role for Russian troops in the peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

115.  Against this volatile backdrop, the question of expanding the size and scope of the peacekeeping force has assumed new urgency.

116.  Allied officials insist that Kosovar refugees will not come back unless they are protected by an effective peacekeeping force that is commanded by a NATO general.

117.  All allied nations have emphasized that they have no intention of fighting their way into Kosovo to install the peacekeeping force envisioned in the peace agreement that Milosevic rejected.

118.  Already there is criticism of the time this will take at a time when the US is refusing to expand the peacekeeping force and extend its role beyond Kabul.

119.  All international issues that intrude on national sovereignty, whether trade, human rights or peacekeeping forces, require negotiation and local approval.

120.  Also, Javier Solana, the departing NATO secretary general, says Russians are an integral part of peacekeeping force and he criticizes Albanians who have blocked them.