21.   Burma was admitted into the regional economic bloc last week during a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

22.   Businessmen from seven impoverished South Asian nations Saturday decided set up a regional bloc to promote trade in the region.

23.   Cambodia is expecting to be admitted to the seven-member regional economic bloc in July along with Laos and Burma.

24.   Centrifugal politics has produced five official parties forming regional blocs.

25.   Chissano and Malawi President Bakili Muluzi were meeting with Mugabe in their capacity as officials of the Southern Africa Development Community, a regional bloc.

26.   Chile and Bolivia plan to join the regional trading bloc.

27.   Collor will begin his teaching stint in August, focusing on the relations between regional trading blocs such as Nafta and Mercosul.

28.   Creating a regional economic bloc should be avoided.

29.   European Commission President Jacques Santer said the two regional blocs were now establishing close political ties beyond traditional trade-based relations.

30.   Failures to reach consensus have long plagued the league, increasingly overshadowed by the appeal of Islam and the regional blocs of Arab countries.