21.   The committee agreed last year to allow a Turkish company to bring parts into Iraq to repair the pipeline.

22.   The Minister For Emergency Situations in Moscow said the gas had been shut off and work was underway to repair the pipeline, the Interfax news agency reported.

23.   The Minister For Emergency Situations in Moscow said work was underway to repair the pipeline, the Interfax news agency reported.

24.   The workers were repairing the pipeline Sunday when it suddenly ruptured, said the agency, monitored in Dubai.

25.   They said Hunt Oil technicians were trying to repair the pipeline, which was leaking heavily.

26.   Yarikhanov praised Chechen troops who protected the Russian workers repairing the pipeline.

27.   Earlier a spokesman for the ministry for emergency situations said that the pipeline had been repaired and that there had been no ecological catastrophe in the remote Komi republic.