101.   While Russia is concerned about NATO expansion, Kobrinskaya said she doubted that a Russian-Chinese alliance would have any real influence on it.

102.   While the northern alliance has the momentum after its sweeping victories in northern Afghanistan over the past week, its factions may be reluctant to venture into the south.

103.   In addition, the NATO alliance has as members Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Turkey and the United States.

104.   In Naples, a NATO spokeswoman said the alliance had no plans to suspend its airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.

105.   In both Brussels and Naples, North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials said the alliance had nothing to do with the blasts.

106.   A rebel alliance has since October seized the eastern half of Zaire in a drive to unseat Mobutu.

107.   But he stressed that the western alliance had no fixed timetable for the admission of eastern Europe.

108.   But the offer was rejected on the grounds that the alliance does not have adequate funds.

109.   Clinton said the two leaders agreed that NATO expansion was inevitable, and that the larger alliance would have close ties to Russia.

110.   Earlier US Defence Secretary William Perry had said he felt NATO should make it clear to Russia that the alliance had no plans to expand its nuclear weapons deployment.