41.   Signaling the importance of ties with Germany, Yilmaz met Chancellor Helmut Kohl on his first official foreign visit since taking office in March.

42.   Severino is on a round of visits since assuming the position of Asean secretary genaral.

43.   Soros was in Moscow this week on his second visit since last fall.

44.   Tauran is the highest-ranking Vatican official to visit since the Vatican and the Jewish state established diplomatic ties two years ago.

45.   The president nonetheless received cheers as the first Kremlin leader to visit since Leonid Brezhnev.

46.   The trip appeared to flout U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq and has emboldened other countries to follow suit, with dozens of visits since then.

47.   Thousands of them turned out Saturday to cheer as President Fidel Ramos paid his first visit since the attack.

48.   U.N. inspectors paid an unannounced visit to a suspected Iraqi weapons site on Saturday, the first such visit since Baghdad blocked their work completely three weeks ago.

49.   Wei has received numerous invitations from Nationalist and opposition party politicians to visit since his release from a Chinese prison and exile to the United States late last year.

50.   General Li was invited to the US Pacific island state by US Defense Secretary William Perry and is the first military official to visit since bilateral ties deteriorated.