21.   The ministers also will want to talk about how much the expansion is going to cost and how those costs will be shared.

22.   The ministers will also want to talk about how much the expansion is going to cost and how those costs will be shared.

23.   U.S. and German economic interests in Russia will suffer if NATO expansion goes ahead, Russian security chief Alexander Lebed said in an interview published Tuesday.

24.   But Gore and others, while not openly criticizing the Russian comments, stressed that NATO expansion would go ahead, saying it posed no threat to Moscow.

25.   Many member states are unlikely to agree to let the expansion go ahead if Poland is not aboard.

26.   On Saturday, Albright said that the expansion would go forward even if a Russia-NATO charter is not in hand before the Madrid summit.