21.   On the whole said Ng, Club Med offers membership to the tiniest of tots to the elders.

22.   The club also offers membership to prominent athletes in non-team sports.

23.   The alliance is considering offering membership to seven countries, including the former Soviet republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

24.   The two sides have been holding regular talks but no breakthroughs have been announced, and NATO plans to offer membership this summer to several Eastern European nations.

25.   Ukraine has sought security guarantees from the alliance, concerned that its tense relationship with the Kremlin may worsen after its eastern neighbors are offered membership.

26.   Aside from the new Asian entrants, the BIS offered membership Monday to the central banks of Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

27.   But NATO ministers said the alliance would not allow Moscow to change its policies, particularly on offering membership to former Warsaw Pact countries such as Poland and Hungary.

28.   The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has offered closer military cooperation with former Warsaw Pact states, while stopping short of offering full membership.

29.   The program was designed to broaden military cooperation between NATO and former commmunist states without offering full membership in NATO.

30.   It offered membership Monday to the central banks of Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.