1.  The statement was aimed at reassuring investors before the stock and bond markets opened on Monday.

2.  The statement was aimed at curbing speculation in Asian currencies by making it more expensive for investors to bet against them, analysts said.

3.  Security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired three-star army general, told reporters the statement was not aimed at dissolving Parliament.

4.  The statement clearly was aimed at U.S. Major League Baseball representatives and scouts, who have been attending the Games with a keen interest in the Cuban baseball team.

5.  A French official said the tripartite statement was aimed at drafting a treaty on anti-personnel mines.

6.  A French official said the statement was aimed at drafting a treaty on anti-personnel mines.

7.  The statement was aimed at defusing tensions and heading off a new US airstrike.

8.  The statement was aimed at stopping the nuclear-armed rivals escalating their conflict into all-out war, Jiji Press news agency quoted Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi as saying.