51.   The visit will coincide with a meeting of a joint Mauritian-Indian commission.

52.   The visit will coincide with the annual meeting of the IMF executive board scheduled in early September when the Fund approves disbursements, they said.

53.   The visit coincided with efforts by US and Chinese negotiators to stave off a threatened trade war war over widespread abuse of American copyrighted goods in China.

54.   The visit coincides with the findings of a UN commission showing that Zaire helped members of the former Rwandan government obtain arms in violation of a UN arms embargo.

55.   The visit coincides with US protests of a contract the Greek-Cypriot government of the divided island has signed for the purchase from Russia of anti-aircraft defense systems.

56.   KCNA gave no further details but the visit coincided with a report from Tokyo that Pyongyang had made a new urgent appeal to Japan for food aid.

57.   The Hurd visit coincided with a one-day stopover in Hong Kong by Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds.