51.   Those topics had been expected to be near the top of the summit agenda, before the financial market turbulence hit.

52.   However, Washington will stand firm on its opposition to the Iran nuclear sale, which is topping the Yeltsin-Clinton summit agenda, Rubin said.

53.   It quoted Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev as saying that peacekeeping operations in ethnic conflicts within the CIS would also figure prominently on the summit agenda.

54.   A new flare-up in tensions between the Palestinians and Israelis has forced the Middle East peace process up the summit agenda.

55.   African flashpoints on the summit agenda are Burundi, Liberia, Rwanda, Angola and Somalia.

56.   Apart from the expansion of the Western alliance and nuclear disarmament, US-Russian economic ties are also on the summit agenda.

57.   At the top of the summit agenda will be issues associated with economic reform in Russia, followed by the expansion of NATO and tuction agreement, McCurry said.

58.   At the top of the summit agenda, he said, will be issues associated with economic reform in Russia, followed by the expansion of NATO.

59.   But government sources say no such concession is on the social summit agenda.

60.   Economic relations between Europe and the dynamic new East Asian economies would top the summit agenda, diplomats said.