51.   Intensive contacts took place over the weekend to remove the remaining obstacles.

52.   An agreement on finance was the remaining obstacle following agreements on transferring powers in health care, social welfare, tourism and education.

53.   An agreement on finance was the remaining obstacle following agreements on transferring powers in other spheres including health care, social welfare, tourism and education.

54.   Baghdad said it gave Ekeus early this month a final report on its germ warfare program, described as the remaining obstacle to a lifting of UN sanctions.

55.   Diplomats Thursday said the remaining operational obstacles to Alliance planes patrolling the northern part of the Krajina, which rings two thirds of Bihac, should be resolved imminently.

56.   European Commission spokesman Klaus van der Pas said the only remaining obstacle after the breakfast meeting was that of British beef exports to non-EU countries.

57.   The MIA and POW issue is the last remaining obstacle to fully normalized relations.

58.   The television said the last remaining obstacles to the signing included the timetable for the Israeli military redeployment from the West Bank.

59.   The UNSCOM chief said the biological weapons issue was the sole remaining obstacle to the lifting of the sanctions.

60.   This leaves only the North Pole as the remaining obstacle to his grand slam quest.