21.   Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev stunned the ministers Thursday by protesting the plan for drawing up conditions for future NATO membership.

22.   The PFP aims to ease former East Bloc nations into western-style military practices, with an eye on future full NATO membership.

23.   Those nations that have previously expressed an interest in becoming NATO members but that were not invited to begin accession talks today will remain under consideration for future membership.

24.   Unlike agreements the EU has signed with its immediate neighbors to the east, the Moldovan accord does not open the door to future membership in the union.

25.   For Portugal, the contentious issue in Singapore is the proposed future membership of Burma in ASEAN.

26.   However he stressed that participation in a working group did not mean future membership in APEC.

27.   According to observers, the United States had been putting more and more pressure on the EU to accept future Turkish membership.

28.   But Washington is not prepared to let Russia dictate future NATO membership.

29.   But the minister, who heads the small Free Democrat Party, declined to give any date for future EU membership of east European states.

30.   Only those criteria could determine the future membership, he said.