61.   Amman will also be offered continued control of the bridges accessing the area, and to continue issuing passports for residents, he said.

62.   British Home Secretary Michael Howard said earlier there was no question of issuing more passports.

63.   But the government was obligated to ensure that those who had already been issued passports could get to Tonga to collect them, he said.

64.   The passports were previously issued to ordinary staff in government and state enterprises, the paper said.

65.   The three countries are also planning to issue special passports for travel between them.

66.   Tonga has stopped issuing passports because of the recognition problem, Edwards said.

67.   Kiejman said he was awaiting confirmation that the passports had been issued in the form of photocopies from Rabat.

68.   Most of the deadlines in a phased programme of issuing BNO passports have passed.

69.   No passports would be issued.

70.   The passport was issued two months ago and was used for the first time by Moslem Palestinians making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.