11.   The pact also could help smooth Clinton administration relations with the Vatican after confrontations over birth control and abortion.

12.   The pacts could help smooth tensions lingering from the Bosnian civil war and strengthen attempts to build a Muslim-Croat federation in Bosnia.

13.   Companies planning global satellite networks for mobile phones said the pact would help their projects.

14.   They believe such a pact would help them obtain technology and give them more access to European markets.

15.   The home minister said the extradition pacts would help in the fight against international terrorism, organized crime and drug smuggling.