21.   All parties in parliament favor NATO membership.

22.   All six parties in Parliament favor the earliest possible NATO membership for the country, and the outcome of the vote was never in question.

23.   Both leading parties favor joining the EU, but differ in their approach.

24.   Both leading parties favor joining the EU, but differ in their approach to gaining membership.

25.   China has been apprehensive about Chen since his party favors formal independence for Taiwan, while Beijing has sought reunification.

26.   Christian Democrat Josef Lux, a member of the former three-party coalition, indicated Tuesday his party also favored June elections.

27.   He said his party favors resolving the dispute with negotiations.

28.   He said his party favored the creation of a new government and a new program approved by the legislature.

29.   He says his party favors only competition from domestic private airlines, and not foreigners.

30.   He stressed that the new party favored entry into the European Union, a group that Turkish Islamists had previously criticized as a force for Western and Christian imperialism.