91.   Ukraine and Russia are due to initial a major friendship treaty, but signature has been repeatedly delayed by disagreements over the fate of the fleet.

92.   Tudjman signed a friendship treaty with Romania while on an official visit there in February.

93.   While the United States admitted that there had been a violation of international law, it added that the matter had nothing to do with the friendship treaty.

94.   Yeltsin has made settlement of the Black Sea fleet problem a condition for a summit expected in Kiev at the end of March to sign a friendship treaty.

95.   Yeltsin is due at the end of March to sign a friendship treaty..

96.   Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi headed for home Saturday after a three-day trip to Russia marked by the signing of a cooperation and friendship treaty.

97.   Lukashenko met with President Jacques Chirac on Thursday, when the two countries signed a friendship treaty, and is due to return to Minsk on Saturday.

98.   Primakov had repeated that the problem should be resolved before Yeltsin visited the Ukrainian capital, where he is to sign a friendship treaty.

99.   Russia plans to scrap a Soviet-era mutual defense and friendship treaty with communist North Korea, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

100.   Putin welcomed increased political and military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing since both capitals signed a friendship treaty last year.