11.   Dos Santos attended the ceremony but had his foreign affairs minister sign the agreement.

12.   Greek ministers signed it Friday, but the resolution must be signed by President Costis Stephanopoulos to become law.

13.   Hao said the Chinese defense minister will sign a military loan agreement at the Philippine Defense Ministry later Wednesday and leave on a commercial flight for Indonesia Thursday morning.

14.   In the wings while Yeltsin made his dramatic statements, ministers signed bilateral agreements on crime-fighting, debt rescheduling, nuclear safety and other matters.

15.   In this regard, EU ministers signed a stabilization and association agreement with Croatia.

16.   Later the two ministers signed an agreement dropping visa requirements for diplomats and government officials.

17.   North Korea initially promised that its defense minister would sign the agreement and send it to the South.

18.   Portuguese and Spanish Justice ministers signed an accord in Lisbon on Monday to increase cross-border coordination in their fight against organized crime in the Iberian peninsula.

19.   Russian and Palestinian ministers also signed a Russian-Palestinian agreement on trade and economic cooperation.

20.   Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo announced that the ministers signed accords Saturday on combating illicit alcohol trading and drug trafficking, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.