41.   The UN presence will be temporarily based in Jalalabad until security conditions permit a permanent return to Kabul, spokesman Joe Sills said.

42.   Under a new agreement reached with EU partners, France now only has to reach that target if economic growth conditions permit.

43.   ITAR-TASS said the institute would send scientists to examine the cadaver as soon as weather conditions permitted.

44.   Sacirbey explained his government was aiming to maintain the concept of a multi-ethnic Bosnia even if current conditions did not permit it.

45.   Solana said that he expected the follow-on force would be in Bosnia for a year but that if conditions permitted it would be gradually phased out over that period.

46.   The cloud of ash generated by the eruption was discovered on Wednesday morning when atmospheric conditions permitted members of the Iceland geothermic institute to fly over the glacier.