31.  He cited overlapping territorial claims to oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, disputes in the Korean peninsula and Taiwan as potential areas of conflict.

32.  Another potential area of conflict threatening to further delay the resumption of diplomatic links is human rights.

33.  But there is no shortage of potential areas of tension, from nuclear, chemical and conventional disarmament to differences over the conflict in former Yugoslavia.

34.  The potential areas for investments are in the steel and aluminium, and hi-tech industries where manufacturing processes will become more automated, he said.

35.  They identified potential areas of cooperation such as construction, communications, electronics and information technology.

36.  Recent studies by institute scientists show that potential areas for oil reserves extend hundreds of kilometres farther north of New Zealand than previously thought.

37.  The big-business grouping listed telecommunications, textiles, food processing and shipbuilding, deep-sea fishing and power generation as potential areas of collaboration.

38.  The decree also clamped restrictions on entering and leaving Chechnya, stepped up the protection of vital industry and put controls on traffic in potential combat areas.