91.   Prime Minister Goeran Persson will announce his long-awaited decision on whether Sweden will seek EMU membership next Tuesday, the governing Social Democratic Party said Thursday.

92.   Russia has tried to dissuade Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from seeking NATO membership.

93.   Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are seeking membership.

94.   Recalling its bitter defeat in the EEA plebiscite, the government chose to first complete the bilateral agreements and seek membership later.

95.   Romania and Bulgaria, both neighbors of Yugoslavia, are seeking NATO membership.

96.   Russian lawmakers also voiced displeasure about a statement in which Tarasiuk allegedly said that Ukraine would seek NATO membership.

97.   Romania, which is seeking NATO membership, would only take part in military action if parliament approved, Romanian Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu said.

98.   Russia has offered security guarantees to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia if they agree to stop seeking membership in the Western alliance, but the offer has been rejected.

99.   Russia has offered the three former Soviet Baltic states security guarantees if they do not seek NATO membership.

100.   Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Albania and Macedonia, are also seeking NATO membership.