31.   Most mountain passes through the Balkans, the only north-south transport links in the country, are closed for traffic.

32.   Modernity would be provided by the excellent transport links and communications in a country where everything runs like clockwork.

33.   NATO Air Commodore David Wilby said earlier that alliance forces were targeting communications and transport links in their escalating campaign to force Milosevic to stop his offensive in Kosovo.

34.   Most mountain passes, the only north-south transport links in the country, were closed.

35.   NATO, meanwhile, continued its round-the-clock air assault on Yugoslav targets, targeting on major communications and transport links in Kosovo and elsewhere in the country.

36.   NATO jets struck communications sites, transport links and other targets Saturday in central Serbia.

37.   Nations must jointly provide resources to safeguard life along common transport links.

38.   On Tuesday, Pakistan called for talks with India on a mutual reduction of troops along their tense border and offered to restore transport links cut last in December.

39.   Reinforcing that pledge, NATO jets struck communications sites, transport links and other targets Saturday in central Serbia.

40.   The agreements between the EU and China and India should help the process of creating efficient maritime transport links, essential for developing trade relations, the Commission said.