11.   But a spokesman for the Indian Foreign Ministry denied that the Canada sought or obtained an assurance from New Delhi that India would not explode a nuclear device.

12.   Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski obtained renewed assurances Friday from German leaders that when his country enters NATO and the European Union, it will not have second-class membership.

13.   The government no longer opposes the organization of an arts festival devoted to Turkey since it obtained assurances that Kurdish culture would also be represented, officials said Wednesday.

14.   The German foreign ministry is trying to obtain assurances that the countries where the refugees are to be returned will grant them asylum.

15.   He obtained assurances from the government army that several thousand civilians held captive in the capital would be freed soon.

16.   However the passengers told Israeli radio that they refused to leave before obtaining assurances from the Israeli embassy.

17.   Balladur said he had obtained assurances from the United Nations that contingents from foreign countries were ready to leave for Rwanda to relieve French forces there.

18.   For now, Milosevic has managed only to obtain assurances from Karadzic that he will not appear in public and will not interfere in the peace process.

19.   Washington has also succeeded in obtaining assurances that Russia will eliminate thousands of conventional arms moved east of the Urals to evade the terms of the CFE.

20.   Spokesman Thant Myint-U said Saturday that the UN had been unable to obtain assurances from the Serb leadership that the locking on incidents would cease.