91.   Hogg left Lebanon Saturday at the end of a regional tour which also took him to Syria for talks on bilateral relations and the Middle East peace process.

92.   However, Israeli officials sought Sunday to play down differences with France before Chirac arrives in the Jewish state on the second leg of his regional tour.

93.   Hrawi was speaking ahead of a new regional tour by US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, starting Monday.

94.   Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said Tuesday when he arrived in Qatar on the fourth stop of his regional tour that Iranian-Saudi relations have improved.

95.   After the second round of meetings Sunday in Damascus and Jerusalem, Christopher is scheduled to end the regional tour with a stop Monday in Cairo.

96.   Badri, current president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, arrived in the UAE on Friday on the first leg of a regional tour.

97.   Burns is on a regional tour to push along the peace process and help reform the Palestinian civil administration.

98.   Chin said a large South Korean trade delegation would visit the UAE in October as part of a regional tour to discuss increasing trade.

99.   Christopher arrived here from Damascus as part of a new regional tour aimed at kickstarting the stalled Syrian-Israeli track of the peace process.

100.   Christopher is in Brazil as part of a regional tour that so far has taken him to El Salvador, Chile and Argentina.