11.  An aide to Ali Mahdi, Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kadare, rejected the statement.

12.  Bockarie also rejected broadcast statements by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah and imprisoned rebel leader Foday Sankoh announcing a cease-fire.

13.  Ex-communists, including President Aleksander Kwasniewski, on the other hand, reject any statement that characterizes four decades of Polish history as a mistake.

14.  Georgia rejected that statement on Friday.

15.  The Islamic militant group Hamas rejected the statement, and Ismail Abu Shanab, a Hamas spokesman, said attacks would go on.

16.  The militant Hamas rejected the statement.

17.  U.N. officials have rejected such statements in the past and accused Iraq of continuing to hide information on its arms program.

18.  Brazauskas rejected recent statements by US Defence Secretary William Perry according to which the former Soviet republic does not yet have the military capacity to join NATO.

19.  But HAMAS leaders rejected his statement, saying no declarations made from an Israeli prison could be considered credible.

20.  But Israel rejected the statement, accusing Arafat of manipulation, and its occupation army invaded seven villages.