41.   Chen has insisted national dignity, substantial benefits and parity between the countries have to be accepted before air links can be restored.

42.   District administrator Simao Tomas Massina told Radio Mozambique that urgent efforts were being made to restore the link.

43.   The president said however that economic ties would not lead to a dialogue between Tehran and Washington on restoring political links.

44.   The rail link was restored thanks to aid from the European Union and Saudi Arabia.

45.   Iraq urged fellow Arab countries on Wednesday to release its frozen assets and restore trading links with Baghdad, in defiance of the United Nations.

46.   Links were restored the following year.

47.   Measures would be taken to restore telephone links between Aden and other regions, along with international lines.

48.   Saudi Arabia is the third Gulf monarchy after the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to restore air links.

49.   Telephone links were partially restored in May when Beli Manastir, in the north of the Serb-held area, was linked to the rest of the country.

50.   The Bosnian Postal Service had hesitated over restoring direct links to international lines because it did not think the impoverished population would be able to pay the bills.