31.  The tough measure is part of regional effort to choke off the heroin trade, but experts fear flow will only increase as Taliban control of Afghanistan collapses.

32.  They also complain that Beijing refuses to join regional efforts such as the four-nation Mekong River Commission to coordinate development.

33.  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he will not appoint his own negotiator to resolve a conflict in Burundi because he supports regional efforts.

34.  Woods faults the regional effort for never coming to grips with the causes of the war, including the sharing of water and of oil revenues.

35.  Foreign ministers from Bolivia, El Salvador and Uruguay also agreed in principle with launching a regional effort to bring Cuba back to the OAS.

36.  Ghana has been leading regional efforts to mediate a truce and political settlement in the country.

37.  But diplomats said that France was isolated over a reference to regional efforts to solve the crisis, which contains an implicit backing of African economic sanctions.

38.  The regional efforts towards an African peacekeeping force have meanwhile run into resistance from the rival Burundi factions.

39.  This involved support for regional efforts for a peacekeeping force led by an African country which would go into Burundi with the agreement of the Burundian government.

40.  Three neighbours of Belarus threw their weight behind EU leaders Wednesday with a statement that the political crisis in the former Soviet republic could overshadow regional efforts towards democracy.