81.   Putin made his announcement as Western governments stepped up warnings to Moscow not to intensify the Chechnya conflict and to move swiftly toward a political settlement.

82.   Russia has much to gain if it succeeds in brokering a political settlement in Yugoslavia.

83.   Samaha said the authorities in Beirut had been expecting a Peres victory and hoping that that would lead to an early political settlement with Israel.

84.   Russia should absorb that analysis and move toward a political settlement in Chechnya.

85.   She acknowledged that negotiations on a political settlement were not moving forward.

86.   She will leave her post having seen the Northern Ireland political settlement overwhelmingly approved by people throughout the island.

87.   She said the Tamil minority had been wronged by the Sinhalese majority and promised to achieve a political settlement.

88.   Sinn Fein has argued that arms should be turned in only when a final political settlement is reached.

89.   Sinn Fein had insisted that the IRA would not disarm until there was an overall political settlement of the sectarian strife in Northern Ireland.

90.   Small cease-fire violations have increasingly been reported as attempts to reach a political settlement in Bosnia have collapsed.