31.  Combatting drug smuggling out of war ravaged Afghanistan depends mainly on the efforts of the law enforcement services of its neighbouring states.

32.  Dinkic said that cross-border trafficking networks established during the sanctions era were still in use for smuggling goods of all types into the country from neighbouring states.

33.  Ethnic Hungarian groups welcomed Wednesday new legislation granting special rights to Hungarian minorities in neighbouring states, one week after the law took effect.

34.  Ethnic leaders described at a press conference how Hungarians in neighbouring states flocked to demand documents that would make people eligible for the benefits granted by the law.

35.  Elsewhere, the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled the conflict for neighbouring states is set to be completred by about the middle of next year.

36.  The move reflects concern in South Africa that accepting the terms on offer would lead to job losses and have a disastrous impact on neighbouring states.

37.  The new dam would meet power needs in Mozambique and in neighbouring states and end the monopoly by South Africas ESKOM.

38.  The plan calls for greater cooperation between land-locked Afghanistan and its neighbouring states.

39.  The Philippines on Thursday said that Vietnamese boatpeople threatened with repatriation could stay, in a dramatic policy backtrack likely to raise a storm among neighbouring Asian states.

40.  The talks come as pressure mounts on the UN Security Council to take action to curb fighting in Zaire which threatens to engulf neighbouring states.