31.   South Korean officials are especially worried about what they see as an unstable political situation in the hard-line communist North.

32.   The population has been falling in recent years due to the unstable economic situation and the collapse of the Soviet-era health care system.

33.   The President was quoted by Cohen as saying he realized that the unstable economic situation here would also affect other countries in the region.

34.   THE unstable situation in Indonesia prompted players bidding for fresh funds thus pressured interbank rates upward.

35.   In March, Turkish troops poured into northern Iraq to root out Turkish Kurd separatists exploiting the unstable situation to regroup.

36.   Investors were worried that the unstable political situation might delay adoption by Japan of measures to boost imports and help economic recovery, market sources said.

37.   It added that a strike by oil workers in Nigeria and the unstable situation in Yemen would also help maintain high crude oil prices.

38.   But the unstable political situation in Russia has led to speculation that presidential elections could be called sooner.

39.   The UN refugee office UNHCR said meanwhile it was concerned about the unstable situation in Sarajevo.

40.   They said that investors were watching closely the unstable Japanese political situation created by the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata on Saturday.