1.   Changes in Irish and British constitutional relations with Northern Ireland are also essential to an overall political accord.

2.   European Union and U.S. officials dismissed French demands to focus on monetary stability in a new wide-ranging trade and political accord signed today by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

3.   Now that there is a cease-fire and political accord between London and Dublin, the agency believes the time is right for emigrants to return home.

4.   Opposition groups, which failed to reach a political accord with Aristide and his Family Lavalas party over the weekend, have refused to acknowledge him as president.

5.   Parlaying the political accord into a permanent peace settlement will be hard work.

6.   Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia have all signed economic and political accords that are stepping stones to EU membership.

7.   Reached Sunday after lengthy negotiations, the military agreement calls for a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya and is considered a prelude to a political accord.

8.   A senior British diplomat said Friday the EU should give Russia the trade concessions and use ratification of a wider political accord to encourage peace in Chechnya.

9.   However, he warned Hamas officials that he would do so if they endangered any future political accord he reaches with the Israelis, Abu Shanab said.

10.   In Moscow on Friday, Russia and the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya signed a political accord giving the Caucasus Mountains republic some new freedoms.