41.   Visiting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Tuesday said he backed the use of United Nations resolutions to end the lingering Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.

42.   Pakistan on Sunday rejected trade talks with its neighbour India without first entering into a dialogue on the lingering Kashmir dispute, official sources said.

43.   The good will generated by the New Year truce quickly flagged in lingering territorial disputes and with continued violence in the Bihac pocket of northwestern Bosnia.

44.   The good will generated by the New Year truce had quickly flagged in lingering territorial disputes and through continued violence in the Bihac pocket of northwestern Bosnia.

45.   The opposition Social Democrats -- who backed the law in the lower house -- had threatened to block it if there was no settlement to the lingering dispute.