41.   Officials are drawing up plans to export software.

42.   Officials drew up a report that will be the basis for an agreement on combatting trafficking to be signed in July.

43.   In Washington and Ottawa, government officials were drawing up plans to deal with the financial crisis.

44.   Burundian officials are meanwhile drawing up their own plans for the mandate of the force, which Ntibantunganya says should be under Burundian command.

45.   But Palestinian officials earlier drew a link between Arafat condemning terrorism and the world reacting to Israeli actions on the West Bank.

46.   Israeli and Palestinian officials have drawn up a secret plan that would open the way for creation of a Palestinian state, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Thursday.

47.   Israeli officials meanwhile drew an optimistic picture of the first two rounds of negotiations with Syria which ended Friday outside Washington.

48.   Officials will then draw up a budget that will be put to parliament for approval.

49.   South Korean defense officials have drawn up a contingency plan including joint naval and air force operations in the disputed area, the conservative Chosun daily said on Sunday.