41.   Visitors with official invitations or proof that their expenses have already been paid in advance will be exempt from the regulation, as will travellers in transit.

42.   Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy has received an official invitation to visit Egypt and could travel to Cairo early next month, official sources said Sunday.

43.   Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmud Hammud delivered an official invitation to the Syrian president from his Lebanese counterpart, Emile Lahoud, to attend the summit, the agency said.

44.   Media reports have said Kwasniewski could deliver an official invitation to the pontiff at that time.

45.   Panama sent a special envoy to Taipei last month to deliver an official invitation for Lee to attend the congress, and Chang later told reporters Lee would go.

46.   Once a consensus is established, a formal meeting of the NATO Council is expected to be quickly convened to authorise an official invitation to Lubbers to take over.

47.   Robinson, on a three-day private visit to Britain, made no mention however of an official invitation from Dublin.

48.   Qian said he presented President Bill Clinton with an official invitation from Chinese President Ziang Jemin to visit China.

49.   Stingl noted that the Chinese embassy had tried to persuade the mayor to retract his official invitation to the Dalai Lama.

50.   The German parliament called Friday on the government to withdraw an official invitation to Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati to attend a conference in Bonn next week.