21.   Doubleday said the Defense Department has not received any official request from Russia for financial assistance to address the problem.

22.   Foreign affairs ministry spokesman Marco Boni said no official request had been received from Milosevic for asylum, the South African Press Association reported.

23.   Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze sent an official request to his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma.

24.   German officials said Israel has made no official request for peacekeepers and they were not aware that Peres would raise the issue on his visit.

25.   German officials said Israel had made no official request for peacekeepers prior to the visit or during talks between Peres and Ruehe.

26.   He also asked the Romanian ambassador to Bern to make an official request to the Swiss Foreign Ministry for more details, the news agency Mediafax reported.

27.   He said official requests for assistance would be going to other countries where the rest of the assets are located.

28.   However, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef said the kingdom had not received any official request from Afghanistan to apprehend the three, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

29.   In Colombo, the government said it had yet to receive an official request from the rebels to lift the ban.

30.   Inchon maritime police officials promised full support once they receive an official request for cooperation.