NATO's new secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, will make bold claims in Istanbul for his Afghan mission.

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Rasmussen, who replaces Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at NATO's helm, said relations with Russia were his second priority.

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Dutch international defender Jaap Stam has an Achilles problem and Roy Keane has sore shins - but both are expected to play.

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United have already bought Jaap Stam and Ruud van Nistelrooy from PSV.

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According to Jaap Meijer, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort, if the French government converted this debt to equity it would be a different story.

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Jaap Stam, who has yet to regain full match fitness, lined up alongside Ronny Johnsen who was greatly missed through injury for much of last season.

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Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO is close to having the number of troops it needs for Afghanistan, where 47, 000 foreign troops take part in the NATO-led mission.

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"The NATO-Russia Council is up and running again also at the political level, " said NATO Secretary- General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, speaking at a meeting of ministers in Corfu, Greece.

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The author, Jaap Denissen, accepted that his conclusions apparently contradicted common sense but insisted that there could be a number of factors to "explain the discrepancy between empirical results and widely held beliefs".

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