11.  Leaders of southern African frontline states are to meet here Saturday in a last ditch bid to save the Angolan peace process from the threat of imminent collapse.

12.  Leaders of the southern African frontline states decided late Saturday that the signing of the Angola peace agreement scheduled for Sunday will go ahead without rebel leader Jonas Savimbi.

13.  South African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo gave the news to journalists at the end of the frontline states meeting.

14.  The frontline states of southern Africa will hold a summit meeting on Saturday in the Zambian capital Lusaka, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Wednesday from Angola.

15.  The offer came during talks here with US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who is on a whirlwind tour of frontline Central Asian states.