11.   The top administrator in the Mongolian Border Army has denied Russian reports of tension along their common frontier resulting from illegal border crossings, Xinhua said Wednesday.

12.   Ukraine and Poland will establish joint border controls at two points along their common frontier, their prime ministers announced Thursday.

13.   Kuchma also said that a principal condition of NATO expansion eastward must be no nuclear weapons in any countries such as Poland which had common frontiers with Ukraine.

14.   Mozambique and South Africa recently deployed troops along their common frontiers with Zimbabwe in the run-up to the vote.

15.   Syria on Tuesday denied it had massed forces on its border with Turkey, but confirmed reports of Turkish troop movements along their common frontier.

16.   The incident saw the two nuclear powers between them massing about a million soldiers on their common frontiers with daggers drawn.