21.   Israeli Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin was pleased with the speech, but he rejected the concept of a provisional Palestinian state.

22.   Israel has always rejected that concept.

23.   Israeli Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin said Israel was pleased with the speech, but rejected the concept of a provisional Palestinian state.

24.   Last month, European environmental officials rejected the concept, saying that Canada was seeking special consideration with an idea that would require renegotiating the Kyoto agreement.

25.   Likud party votes to reject concept of a Palestinian state.

26.   Milosevic has steadily rejected the concept of any foreign armed forces in Kosovo as part of a settlement of the Serbian province.

27.   Serbian voters are expected to resoundingly reject the concept of foreign mediation, following an all-out campaign against it in the state-run media.

28.   Writing in the daily Liberation, Gabriel Cohn-Bendit rejected the concept that manhood is a function of sexual prowess.

29.   The United States and Israel reject the concept of an active role for the Europeans in the Arab-Israeli negotiations.

30.   Russia rejected that concept and then proposed a looser reading of the pact that would allow missile defense tests Washington had considered to be prohibited.