81.   President Suharto plans to visit Malaysia next Sunday to discuss issues including the disputed islands of Sipadan and Ligitan, a palace official said.

82.   President Hosni Mubarak offered Tuesday to mediate an end to the conflict between Yemen and Eritrea over disputed islands in the Red Sea.

83.   Russia and Japan begun formal talks on Monday about making Japanese fishing near the disputed islands off Hokkaido safer, officials said.

84.   Russia has released two Japanese fishermen it seized near disputed islands in February last year, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

85.   Russia officially thanked Japan on Tuesday for fresh aid to victims of a powerful earthquake which rocked disputed islands off Hokkaido last October, Russian reports said.

86.   Russian patrol boats have fired at and detained Japanese fishing vessels in the waters near the four disputed islands.

87.   Relations got a boost recently with the reaching of a basic agreement on a new treaty to set fishing boundaries and quotas around hotly disputed islands.

88.   Regrettably, no easy parallels exist between Germany and the disputed South Atlantic islands.

89.   Russian patrol boats have fired at and detained Japanese fishing boats in the waters near the four disputed islands, accusing the Japanese vessels of poaching in the area.

90.   Russia and Japan said much more work is needed for a settlement as they ended preliminary talks Tuesday on the safety of fishing in waters off disputed islands.