71.   While reforms would go ahead, Zhang said that the government would never shirk its responsibilities.

72.   Juppe has insisted the reform must go through, while backing down on plans to reform public sector pension schemes and to restructure the indebted railways.

73.   Juppe has insisted welfare reform must go through but has backed down on plans to reform public-sector pension schemes and to restructure the indebted railways.

74.   Prakash Karat of the powerful Communist Party of India-Marxist said his party had concluded reforms were going against the Congress.

75.   The influential Buddhist clergy who represent the interests of the majority Sinhalese community have insisted that the Tigers must be militarily weakened before any reforms could go ahead.

76.   The message to the parliament in Kiev from Winnipeg, he said, was that international help would be forthcoming only if the economic reforms went ahead.