11.   The country also hopes to tap Asian markets directly at a later stage.

12.   The current loan will expire next January and the country hopes to negotiate an extended loan with the IMF team that arrived today.

13.   The two countries hope and expect that their proposal will get backing from the Bush administration, which has been critical of cloning.

14.   These countries hope that compatible Western equipment will smooth their entry to NATO.

15.   To understand how the country hopes to shrug off its downcast mood, Latin Trade spoke with ordinary people affected by the recession in Buenos Aires.

16.   Without membership in a regional group, a country can never hope to be elected to important councils and committees in the U.N. system.

17.   Yet gambling may not be the quick fix these countries hope for.

18.   Over the next year the three countries hope to sign an agreement to assist each other during a major Arctic disaster.

19.   A Finance Ministry official said Wednesday that economic conditions were improving in Sudan and that the country hoped for better relations with the International Monetary Fund by next year.

20.   Al-Sahhaf, arriving later in the Jordanian capital Amman, said his country hoped that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be able to broker a compromise.