41.   France has so far held four tests at its two testing sites in the South Pacific, and President Jacques Chirac has said there will be two more.

42.   For security reasons, the locations and names of the testing sites will be kept secret, he added.

43.   France was unable to sign SPNFZ because it was conducting nuclear testing inside the zone at its testing site at Mururoa Atoll.

44.   Hiti Tau also called for the creation of an independent, international commission of experts to investigate testing sites at Mururoa and Fangataufa and give its opinion.

45.   Earlier Euverte warned Greenpeace against using divers in their protest action at the nuclear testing sites, saying soldiers could open fire on them.

46.   Nine parliamentarians from Japan, Australia, Italy, Sweden and Luxembourg were to set to leave here Sunday for the French nuclear testing site in the South Pacific.

47.   Murayama said Chirac told him Japanese scientists had been invited to the Mururoa atoll testing site in French Polynesia.

48.   That decision was taken as France conducted nuclear tests at its South Pacific testing site on Mururoa Atoll.

49.   The French tests at the South Pacific testing site at Mururoa atoll are scheduled to begin in September.