111.   If parliament passes the bill in the second vote, it will go to the Expediency Council for a final decision.

112.   However, the deputy head of the Russian prison system, Oleg Filimonov, said he did not expect parliament to pass the amnesty in time for the holiday.

113.   In a separate protest, scores of miners gathered Tuesday in Warsaw to urge President Aleksander Kwasniewski to veto pension law changes passed by parliament and awaiting his signature.

114.   In addition, the Georgian parliament recently has passed at first reading a draft law banning capital punishment in the former Soviet republic, it said.

115.   In contrast, the parliament passed the second part of the civil code with hardly any objection.

116.   In December, the Russian parliament passed legislation that sought to curtail foreign adoptions, John said.

117.   In a late session Wednesday, the Angolan parliament passed a motion urging the government to terminate the U.N. mission.

118.   In addition, he said, the government plans to propose amendments to the law, which must be passed by parliament.

119.   In March, parliament passed an act establishing the court and streamlined court procedures in bankruptcy cases.

120.   In recent years, the opposition-led Russian parliament has not passed the budget until several months into the new year.