1.   Union leaders criticized the government for introducing the price rises before implementing privatization measures and before passing laws on unemployment benefit and other social protection measures.

2.   Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas.

3.   However, the Supreme Soviet criticized the government over its social protection measures.

4.   Many governments have also been forced to concentrate on short-term economic crisis management to the detriment of longer-term environmental protection measures.

5.   Thailand has passed new legislation aimed at bringing wildlife protection measures into line with international standards.

6.   The Polish Environment Minister, Stefan Kozlowski, has called for the formation of a civil work programme to undertake environmental protection measures.

7.   Environmental protection measures were almost entirely lacking, the report concluded.

8.   Just three companies -- ICI, RTZ and Thames Water -- detailed the costs of the environmental protection measures which they had adopted.

9.   President Bush has arrived at the summit out-of-step with other world leaders on environmental protection measures.