81.   It came after a meeting on Tuesday of the commission monitoring the military accords was cancelled.

82.   Jordan has very good relations with Turkey and was one of the few Arab countries not to have criticised an Israeli-Turkish military accord signed in February.

83.   Khodzhakhmed Yarikhanov, a senior Chechen negotiator, accused the Russians of backtracking on the military accord.

84.   Looking relaxed and in apparent good health, he gave his reactions to the recent signing of a military accord in the war-torn Russian region of Chechnya.

85.   Meanwhile, Chechen delegates denied that separatist President Dzhokhar Dudayev opposed the military accord.

86.   Mubarak also warned Egypt would react to any threat to Syria from a military accord signed by Turkey and Israel.

87.   Negotiations did start after the Budennovsk crisis, but have been suspended since October after repeated violations of a military accord signed in summer.

88.   On Tuesday, both sides cancelled a meeting of the commission monitoring the military accords.

89.   Russian and separatist leaders signed a ceasefire and military accord over summer to end fighting since federal troops marched in last December, but that has been repeatedly broken.

90.   Relations between Syria and Turkey have deteriorated since Ankara signed a controversial military accord with Israel in February which Syria considers a danger to its security.