41.   The spokesman for the separatist government Movladi Udugov said the two sides had reached a compromise and a statment could be made Saturday.

42.   The three security officials were killed Saturday, probably by militants opposed to the current separatist government, Chechen security services said, quoted by Interfax.

43.   Turkey backs a separatist government set up in northern Cyprus, which has not been recognised by the international community.

44.   Udugov was information minister in the first separatist government led by president Dzhokhar Dudayev, who declared Chechnya independent and died during the war.

45.   While maintaining the threat of an intervention in Chechnya Moscow has suggested negotiations with the separatist government in the framework of a working group set up on Saturday.

46.   It also comes amid US-Russian disputes over Bosnia and Russian military moves to crush a separatist government in Chechnya, a Moslem region in southern Russia.

47.   Kazbek Makhashev, the interior minister of the provisional separatist government, said his side applied accords on prisoners of war.

48.   Movlady Ugudov, spokesman for the separatist Chechen government, told Moscow Echo radio on Tuesday that the rebel commando had full control of the Dagestani village.

49.   Political analysts say the paradox of Quebeckers electing a separatist government while rejecting the idea of separation is simply explained.

50.   Quebec and Canadian political leaders are waiting anxiously for Lucien Bouchard to say whether he will take over the separatist government of the province of Quebec.