21.   It did not specify which countries had been invited to the meeting.

22.   A final decision on which ex-communist countries will be invited to join NATO will not take place before October, a US State Department official said Tuesday.

23.   The minister said Iran had also invited regional countries to attend as observers.

24.   The official said nine countries were invited to the luncheon, expected to be held Monday.

25.   The official said many Afghans had been invited from outside Afghanistan as experts, though no experts from within the country had been invited.

26.   Thirty-nine countries have been invited to the conference, which will be jointly run with the United Nations Development Programme, they said.

27.   NATO is due to decide which countries to invite to a summit in Prague in November, while the EU will give the green light in December.

28.   The inauguration of the statue will take place during a rally to which the entire country has been invited.