41.   Turkey froze relations with the former Soviet country at the time.

42.   Work on the reactors was stalled after a North Korean submarine intruded into South Korea in September, freezing relations between North and South.

43.   Finally, Solana will ask the Kremlin not to freeze its relations with NATO entirely even if disagreements persist on the enlargement question.

44.   Besides Jordan, Kuwait froze its relations with Yemen, Sudan and the PLO because of the Gulf War.

45.   But Beijing was infuriated and froze relations with Washington, which are now slowly recovering after a summit between presidents Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton.

46.   China would also suspend imports of US films, television programmes, video tapes and laser discs produced and freeze relations with the American organisations dealing with intellectual property.

47.   Diplomats at the United Nations have also tried to normalise contacts with other African countries which have either broken off or frozen their relations with Israel.

48.   Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Thursday he was unaware of any decision by his cabinet to freeze relations with Singapore.

49.   Meanwhile authorities in Andalucia are to ask the European Union to freeze commercial relations between it and Morocco, a regional government spokesman said.

50.   Norway has said it will freeze relations between the two countries while Iranian attitudes towards Rushdie remain unchanged.