His plan calls for one road from the West Bank into northern Jerusalem and a second linking central Israel with Jewish settlements inside the West Bank.. It is also intended as a warning shot to Washington not to press ahead with similar legislation for Iran and Libya. President Bill Clinton suspended the right to sue under the Helms-Burton law earlier this month, but Sir Leon Brittan, the EU Commissioner for external relations, said a "sword of Damocles" hung over European companies and individuals. The measures, which include the right to counter-sue anywhere in the EU, follow agreement by European foreign ministers earlier this month on the need for swift retaliation.. European companies which co-operate with Washington's tough new anti-Cuba legislation face fines under retaliatory measures tabled yesterday by the European Commission.

Brussels hopes publication of the measures will be enough to persuade the Americans to back away from implementing provisions which allow US citizens to sue foreign companies for "trafficking" in property confiscated after the 1959 revolution in Cuba. Mr Pathak claims to have paid Chandraswami, a guru associated with Mr Rao, $100,000 in 1983 to win a state contract for paper pulp and newsprint. The businessmen alleges that Mr Rao, who was foreign minister at the time, assured him at a meeting in a Manhattan hotel in 1983: "Your work will be done." The former prime minister denies this, saying he was not in New York on the dates which were mentioned by Mr Pathak Reuter - New Delhi. Mr Rao, 75, must now appear as a co- defendant in a case of conspiring to cheat an expatriate Indian, Lakhubai Pathak, of $100,000 (pounds 65,000). The political future of India's former prime minister, Narasimha Rao, looked uncertain after a judge rejected his appeal against a summons to testify in a corruption case. The chief rebel spokesman, Movladi Udugov, said the body of one of the attackers was that of a Chechen man known as an "active collaborator with the Federal Security Service" Reuter - Grozny.

Chechen rebels accused Russian secret services of being behind an assassination attempt on their chief-of-staff and top military negotiator, Aslan Maskhadov, whose car came under fire on Monday. Mr Maskhadov was not hurt, but one of his bodyguards was wounded. The French Interior Minister, Jean-Louis Debre, and the British Home Secretary, Michael Howard, confirmed that other measures were agreed but would not disclose details.Essay, page 12. The complexities of extradition are already familiar to Britons from the difficulties of extraditing IRA suspects from Ireland or the US. The borderline between preventive monitoring of telephones and bank accounts and invasion of privacy is notoriously hard to draw.Some measures were agreed but for reasons of state secrecy do not figure in the 25 points.

The 25 points are all couched as exhortations - "We call on all states to ... Hosted by the G7 chairman, France, it was attended by foreign and interior ministers from the eight countries and by some intelligence chiefs. One remarkable aspect of the gathering was the presence of the head of the Russian security service, General Nikolai Kovalyev, sitting alongside people who would have been his sworn enemies less than a decade ago.The weight and likely effectiveness of the document is hard to gauge. " With few exceptions, they amount to little more than an extension to eight countries of the collaboration which is already in operation bilaterally between many of them.Altering the terms of refugee or asylum status is something that must be submitted to the United Nations. In a sign of what the US was up against, the German Foreign Minister, Klaus Kinkel, insisted just before the meeting began that Germany would continue a "dialogue" with Iran.Yesterday's meeting had been agreed at the annual summit of the G7 in Lyons in May, which took place in the shadow of the bombing of US troops in Saudi Arabia.