61.   Hoon also appeared to dismiss comments made by Short about whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had to be resolved before dealing with Iraq.

62.   A Russian parliamentary commission set up to assess the Chechen conflict has summoned senior political and military leaders to a hearing Monday, commission president Stanislav Govorukhin said Friday.

63.   Conflicts often also have a deep-rooted ethnic basis, occurring as they do between the nomadic Peulhs and the sedentary Hausas.

64.   Until now, government leaders have maintained that the conflict would have no effect on budget austerity, because it could be funded from the defence budget.

65.   Moreover, those conflicts had a direct effect on Russia.

66.   The commissioner said, however, the conflict had little chance of influencing Russian-EU relations.

67.   The conflict has had serious repercussions for the economic, political and social situation in Niger.

68.   The conflict has had a devastating effect.