91.   Opposition leaders have criticised the move to end the payments as an attempt to undermine the PAS-led administration.

92.   Serb authorities had been demanding that the United Nations acknowledge Serb ownership of the airport and had sought cash payments as a price for a resumption in UN flights.

93.   The Guardian quoted OSCE official Jean Ouellet as defending the payment as being in the interests of free speech.

94.   The latest claim comes in a week in which Arsenal sacked manager George Graham amid claims that he accepted an irregular payment as part of a transfer deal.