1.  Around this central structure of political departments others were grouped.

2.  Foreign Minister Rosario Green of Mexico was an assistant secretary-general in the U.N. political department when she met Albright.

3.  Rhee Beyoung Gyu, senior assistant editor, political department, The Hankook Ilbo, Seoul.

4.  Al-Hassan said the new committee will include Farouk Kadoumi, the chief of the PLO political department who has opposed the peace deals with Israel.

5.  A crisis committee has been formed and negotiations are ongoing, said Toivo Klaar, head of the political department at the Estonian foreign ministry.

6.  A foreign ministry official said Monday this was not due to any political motives but rather to bad coordination between various Russian political departments.

7.  Among those refusing to attend is PLO political department chief Faruq Kaddumi.

8.  But the chief of the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Faruq Kaddoumi, will come in his place, Mussa said.

9.  Faruq Kaddumi, the PLO political department chief, and Abu Mazen, who himself signed the accord, were among the absentees.

10.  Faruq Kaddumi, the head of the PLO political department and a fierce Arafat critic, criticised the disarmament plan.