P609 609 TELEINF 03:22:43 Dead Sea resort  ral talks aimed at halting the arms race in the Middle East. The two-day meeting brought together experts from 17 countries including Israel, along with a palestinian delegation. The multilateral talks, co-sponsored by the United States and Russia, are being boycotted by Syria and Lebanon. The defence officials were due to pre- pare the ground for a higher-level me- eting in Tunis on December 15, jorda- nian delegation leader Abdallah Toukan told reporters. The experts would also discuss plans for setting up a conflict preve&tig& centre in the Middle East. The multi- lateral talks were launched at the 1991 Middle East peace conference in Madrid. Special committees are dealing with five areas: economic cooperation, water resources, the envhronment, arms see next page >>>