21.  UN-sponsored talks between exiled East Timorese groups and those living in the territory under Indonesian-rule are set to go ahead early next month.

22.  Mukhlissi, whose exiled group is based in Kazakhstan, was contacted by telephone from neighbouring Uzbekistan.

23.  The exiled Uighur group that claimed responsibility for the Urumqi bus bombings said they had acted in retaliation for the treatment of Moslems in Yining.