41.   Beyond symbols, the accord has major strategic and geo-political implications.

42.   The US-Russia accord has now to be apporoved by the other NATO allies, but this is not expected to raise problems.

43.   Yastrzhembsky said the NATO-Russian accord must have a clause ruling out any deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of new members.

44.   Krajisnik said that the peace accord had to be applied and good relations maintained with IFOR and international organisation.

45.   Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said the peace accords had the potential to end the conflict for good.

46.   The accord has yet to be ratified by the South African parliament, but this is a formality.

47.   The accord has yet to be ratified by the State Duma, or lower house of parliament.

48.   The accord however had numerous loopholes which allowed European countries including Britain, France, Germany and Italy to go on selling arms to the regime.

49.   The accord will have to be approved by the Russian and Belarus parliaments, whose speakers have already backed the plan, Lukashenko said.

50.   The Bosnia peace accords have not given international civilian authorities a bbroad enough mandate to establish a united and integrated Bosnia, unidentified senior NATO officials told the daily.