101.   His trip will come only six weeks after another top visit to Israel, by Chief of the Turkish General Staff Ismail Hakki Karadayi.

102.   Her trip comes at the end of a year of intense diplomatic activity between the two countries highlighted by a Falklands oil accord signed last month.

103.   His trip came after a division between European Union member states last month over starting direct negotiations between the European Commission and Iran for a trade and cooperation pact.

104.   His trip comes as President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine returns from India.

105.   His trip came amid an historic Northern Ireland peace breakthrough which set the tone for a triumphant visit steeped in the symbolism of peace and reconciliation.

106.   But his new trip comes amid mounting criticism within Vietnam of the territorial cost of the thaw in relations.

107.   The reconnaissance trip came after state radio said Israel had agreed to let Palestinian preventive security men set up in Jenin and Nablus from Sunday.

108.   The senatorial trip came less than a week before the crucial visit to China of US Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

109.   The trip came a day after Israel and the Palestinian Authority launched a regional business cooperation project also involving Jordan and Egypt.

110.   The trip comes after Iran sponsored and organised a frenetic round of inter-Afghan peace negotiations aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the long-running civil war.