41.   French President Jacques Chirac called on Wednesday for coordinated action by the United States and the European Union in the Middle East, Africa and Bosnia.

42.   A European bank trader said meanwhile that the markets were awaiting coordinated action on interest rates by the Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve to support the dollar.

43.   An official statement said the ministers would discuss regional security problems and draw up a programme of coordinated action.

44.   They also wanted coordinated international action against the use of new technologies to spread sexually-explicit material.

45.   NATO Secretary General George Robertson warned last week that the imbalance did indeed raise questions as to whether NATO could mount coordinated military actions.

46.   Passengers within several European countries on Wednesday are likely to find their travel plans severely disrupted by the coordinated action.

47.   Syrian ambassador to Iran Ahmad al-Hassan told the Iranian weekly Kayhan Havaii on Sunday that Tehran and Damascus were looking to take coordinated action against the accord.

48.   Takemura said Japan would take coordinated action with other countries.

49.   The dollar was driven down from the artificially high levels it had reached due to the coordinated action of central banks, traders said.