11.   Labor leader Helen Clark said she would telephone the chiefs of two other opposition parties on Sunday and invite them to join a partnership.

12.   Twenty-six nations have joined the partnership, including all former Soviet republics except Tadjikistan.

13.   A NATO spokesman in Brussels confirmed that Russia would join the partnership for peace effort linking the Atlantic alliance to former Soviet bloc countries.

14.   Agreement to such a non-binding system of information exchanges and consultations followed several months of tense negotiations as Russia wavered over joining the partnership.

15.   Agreement to such a non-binding system of information exchanges and consultatoions followed several months of tense negotiations as Russia wavered over joining the partnership.

16.   NATO badly wants Russia to join the partnership for peace programme, hoping that this will make the military plans of each side more transparent to the other.

17.   NATO badly wants Russia to join the partnership so that the military plans of each side will be more transparent to the other.

18.   NATO wants Russia to join the partnership for peace programme, hoping that this will make the military plans of each side more transparent to the other.

19.   NATO is pressing Russia to join the partnership.

20.   Some countries who have joined the partnership might be able to join NATO eventually but it is not automatic, the NATO source said.