31.   The American-French consortium of Esso Exploration and Production and Elf Aquitaine is exploring the landlocked country and planning to build a pipeline.

32.   The Czech republic is a landlocked country, dependent for decades of Communist rule on imports of Russian oil.

33.   The fighting in the north of the landlocked country was the heaviest since peace talks brokered by the United Nations broke down last week in neighboring Pakistan.

34.   The embargo bars the shipment of all goods, except food and medicine, to the landlocked country.

35.   The sanctions, which blocked imports of petroleum products into this landlocked country, have raised the possibility of further delays.

36.   The shut-down would likely affect copper production, the main hard currency earner of this landlocked southern African country.

37.   The tiny landlocked country depends on its neighbors to import its coffee, tea, cotton and other raw materials.

38.   The tiny landlocked mountainous Southeast Asian country of Laos is bordered by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma.

39.   The Rwandan government on Thursday threatened legal action against fuel dealers who have raised their prices, doubling the cost of transport and food prices in the landlocked country.

40.   There were also grim forecasts in the landlocked country of Bolivia.