21.   He said he realised the potential of these countries and the importance of border trade and will discuss it with related government agencies in the near future.

22.   He said Turkey would soon renew a long rejected exemption request from U.N. sanctions on Iraq to revitalize border trade and compensate its economic losses.

23.   In the past, border trade was conducted mainly by individual entrepeneurs on a cash or barter basis.

24.   India and Burma have a mutual interest in border trade and in controlling insurgents along their border.

25.   Local politicians say opening border trade could dilute the dozens of separatist movements in the region.

26.   Meanwhile, truckers have filled the streets of two small towns near here dependent on the border trade.

27.   Presently, there is no formal trade between India and Pakistan, although limited cross border trade does exist for a number of consumer items, Mukhtar said.

28.   Pressured by complaints of a drop in border trade, Poland will introduce inexpensive, multiple-entry visas for its eastern neighbors, interior ministry official said Wednesday.

29.   Thai officials have said the selective currency controls had adversely affected Thai-Malaysian border trade and tourism.

30.   Supachai said sub-regional and border trade have good potential, aside from obstacles such as smuggling, insufficient border checkpoints and inconvenient transport facilities.