1.   The republics would need to create the legal framework and conditions for market economies.

2.   Everyone agrees the republics need all the parctical help they can get to stop them tearing themselves apart.

3.   Powell said that the decision over weapons sales to Taiwan would be based on what the republic needs to defend itself.

4.   The republic needs money quickly to finance supplies to its northern regions before the onset of winter cuts supply routes.

5.   Maskhadov has said the tiny, landlocked republic will need close economic ties with Russia regardless of its political status.

6.   The prime minister did not explain why the former Soviet republic would need the help.