41.   Moussa said the issue of an eventual dialogue between Mediterranean nations and the Atlantic alliance would be discussed at the two-day Algiers meeting.

42.   The death was the first among the small contingent from neutral Austria, which is participating for the first time in an operation led by the Atlantic alliance.

43.   The NATO strikes represented the strongest military action yet by the Atlantic alliance in Bosnia.

44.   The United States and Canada round out the Atlantic alliance.

45.   This has raised concern in Russia, delaying its own new relationship with the Atlantic alliance as a means of protest.

46.   What is harder to understand is why the British Government, notionally committed to the Atlantic alliance, is going along with such nonsense.

47.   France on Wednesday named an officer to a NATO job in the first appointment of its kind since President Jacques Chirac announced a rapprochement with the Atlantic alliance.

48.   French President Jacques Chirac earlier repeated his desire that the Atlantic alliance be enlarged to take in former republics of the Soviet Union.

49.   France wants a greater role in NATO provided the Atlantic alliance is reformed with a bigger say for Europe, French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said on Sunday.

50.   Hungarian leaders are currently seeking to speed up the process of gaining membership of the Atlantic alliance.