31.   The UAE has an islands dispute with the UAE, its neighbour across the Gulf.

32.   The UAE, locked in an island dispute with Iran, has sought to beef up its military capability in multi-billion-dollar armament programmes.

33.   Ties have been strained by the islands dispute.

34.   Their main concerns included the Korean peninsula, China-Taiwan tensions and the six-nation Spratly islands dispute.

35.   Japanese investments in Russia have suffered as a result of the island dispute.

36.   It include British commitment to protect the UAE, which has been locked in an island dispute with Iran.

37.   Japanese Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda and his Chinese counterpart Qian Qichen agreed Saturday on high-level talks as soon as possible, while playing down a serious island dispute.

38.   On Monday, Japanese vice foreign minister Sadayuki Hayashi denied a reported accord to shelve the island dispute with China.

39.   Odachi has been in the media for weeks over her stand against her government in the islands dispute.

40.   Sanaa said it had accepted the draft to submit the islands dispute to international arbitration.