His remarks, broadcast by the state radio and television, were monitored in Nicosia.

In remarks broadcast on national television, Mr. Putin said he would focus on "significant acceleration of economic growth" and "resistance to poverty."

"We have to find and destroy them," he said in remarks broadcast on the state television channels.

"I still think it can be concluded," the President said in remarks broadcast on Soviet television today.

"This desire for stabilization must not lead to destabilizing the foundation of the state, the Constitution," he said in remarks broadcast on state television.

"Both government and regional heads did not carry out the task we had talked about," he said in remarks broadcast on state television.

"Ukraine has more than once suffered through crisis," he told the lawmakers in remarks broadcast on television, presenting himself as a sort of national unifier.

"For me he is no longer the one," Mr. Mobutu said in remarks broadcast over the state radio and television.

Tonight he addressed university students in Warsaw, with some of his remarks broadcast on television, as they so often are these days.

"They haven't found a thing, not a thing," he said in remarks broadcast on Russian television.