61.   The programme aims to bolster cooperation between the former Communist bloc states of eastern and central Europe with the Atlantic alliance.

62.   The two men had agreed on the absolute importance that the Atlantic alliance and the United Nations continue to act in tandem, the Italian agency said.

63.   The United States is in favour of letting countries such as Hungary and Poland, which were under Soviet tutelage during the Cold War, join the Atlantic alliance.

64.   This was a reference to applications from such former Soviet bloc countries as Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to join the Atlantic alliance.

65.   US military leaders outlined Wednesday a six-point strategy for bolstering European security that called for gradual NATO enlargement and more cooperation between Russia and the Atlantic alliance.

66.   Ukraine was no less important than Russia to the Atlantic alliance, Goss said.

67.   Warplanes from the Atlantic alliance have been operating for over two weeks in an effort to pressure the Bosnian Serb army to pull its heavy weapons back from Sarajevo.

68.   While the NATO secretary-general is chosen by European members, their US partner in the Atlantic alliance has final approval.

69.   Under the Partnership for Peace, former Eastern Bloc states can apply for closer links with the Atlantic alliance, but cooperation still falls well short of full membership.

70.   Warplanes from the Atlantic alliance have been pounding Bosnian Serb military targets in an attempt to get the Serbs to withdraw heavy guns from around Sarajevo.