21.   But the navy will continue to develop and deploy new weapons as conditions permit, he added.

22.   Food has been reaching Kabul and Herat in the west by truck when security conditions permit, he said.

23.   Fund officials said that date could still be met or delayed a bit if conditions permit an IMF review mission to return to the country within a week.

24.   Gong said the visa office was scheduled to re-open Friday if conditions permitted.

25.   It will reopen again when conditions permit.

26.   National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley said security officials from both sides would gather somewhere in the region as soon as conditions permit.

27.   Once conditions permit, the United States is expected to have a substantial presence in Afghanistan.

28.   Security conditions permitting, a mass funeral was scheduled for Saturday for the Qana victims, who are to be buried in a single grave, officials said.

29.   Security conditions permitting, the dead were to be buried in a mass grave in the adjacent village of Qana, southeast of this southern port city.

30.   The government will then sell around half of the shares on the stock market before the end of June, market conditions permitting.