21.   There has also been growing concern that several regions will not have in place the infrastructure needed for holding elections.

22.   There also has been growing concern that several regions will not have in place the infrastructure needed for holding elections.

23.   Under the deal, the sides have agreed in principle to set up a coalition government and holding new elections in the impoverished former Soviet republic.

24.   Gonzalez, under mounting media and parliamentary pressure to resign, said he did not foresee holding elections before those scheduled for next March.

25.   Holding national elections are intended to usher in new-style administrative bodies that can stitch the divided country back together.

26.   Holding new elections would first require a constitutional amendment, she said soon after talks with President Abdur Rahman Biswas.

27.   The two men met in a Turkish-led initiative to try to resolve their differences and discuss holding elections.

28.   The view was, however, not supported by other young party heavyweights, who feel that holding national elections would tone down the current wrangles in the party.

29.   Partial accords have been hammered out in the past two months, but deep differences remain over Hebron, prisoner releases and holding elections in Jerusalem.

30.   The government has defended holding local elections only in provincial and district capitals where the functioning adminstrative structures exist.