21.   Netanyahu also distanced himself from controversial remarks by his foreign minister Ariel Sharon, who said an independent Kosovo could further undermine stability in the Balkans.

22.   Siimann said he had no objection to how Lepikson had performed his official duties, but found his penchant for controversial remarks disruptive.

23.   South Korea agreed Monday to hold a summit meeting with Japan as scheduled after a Japanese Cabinet minister resigned over controversial remarks on Korean history.

24.   Some of the controversial remarks made by Lebed.

25.   Suh Suk-jae was dismissed as government administration minister a day after he allegedly made the controversial remarks to reporters.

26.   The controversial remarks sparked an international outcry with the World Jewish Congress and the Jerusalem-based Jewish Agency threatening to mount boycotts against Swiss banks.

27.   The Swiss ambassador to the United States who stepped down over a controversial remark has been in trouble before with his American hosts.

28.   When Mantiri made his controversial remarks, he was the chief of the military command that oversees the troubled region of East Timor.

29.   For this reason, he refused to repudiate controversial remarks attacking Asian immigration by independent MP Pauline Hanson in her maiden speech to parliament last September.

30.   Hanson was originally endorsed by the Liberal Party but was expelled during the run-up to the election after making controversial remarks about Aboriginal people.