21.   While stifling any outbreak of political dissent, the regime courts foreign investment, reversing decades of economic isolation imposed by previous military governments.

22.   Director Colette Mathur, speaking before the start of a business summit here, said India had now abandoned its policy of self-imposed economic isolation.

23.   The United States and its close ally Israel accuse Iran of supporting international terrorism and call for its economic isolation.

24.   North Korea and Libya are two states faced with malnutrition problems due largely economic isolation caused for political reasons.

25.   The move also deals a blow to repeated US calls for an economic isolation of the Islamic republic, according to observers.