1.   Clearly, there was a process underway to prepare the Jordanian people for the shock of their first transition of power in nearly half a century.

2.   The Clinton administration should redouble its support for the negotiating process underway in Arusha, Tanzania, that includes all the major factions and leading regional states.

3.   On the other hand, they threaten his proposed economic reforms and have already criticised the privatisation process currently underway in Ukraine.

4.   Shevardnadze also warned that the holding of such an election risked undermining the fragile peace process underway in the region.