41.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, held a Cabinet session to discuss plans for further Israeli troop withdrawals from rural areas of the West Bank.

42.   Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called his senior ministers together for consultations before the regular weekly Cabinet session Sunday morning, Israel TV reported.

43.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a Cabinet session to discuss plans for further Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank.

44.   Koptev spoke at the Cabinet session on Thursday to ask for funding that would allow his agency to fulfill its obligations with the new space station.

45.   Last month, a special Cabinet session passed a draft forestry law and a forestry code.

46.   Larijani is not a minister but sat in on Cabinet sessions in his capacity as head of the broadcast network.

47.   Moderate ethnic Albanian leaders were not immediately available to comment on results of the late-night Cabinet session.

48.   Megawati attended the opening of an environmental exhibition and refused to comment when reporters asked why she had avoided the Cabinet session.

49.   Mordechai was absent for most of the Cabinet session, according to Israeli radios, dealing with the latest Gulf crisis from military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

50.   Netanyahu later postponed a Cabinet session to ratify the accord because the Palestinians had not yet delivered a working document on security.