21.   China Tuesday backed a call by US President George W. Bush to deepen international cooperation in the war against terror, pledging closer exchanges on the issue.

22.   Earlier in his speech, Hu urged ASEAN to play a bigger role to deepen cooperation in Asia.

23.   The two leaders also discussed bilateral issues, resolving to deepen regional cooperation in areas such as border crossings and fighting organised crime.

24.   The two men also stressed the need to deepen cooperation in fields such as the economy and tourism, it said.

25.   Kinkel said he wanted to deepen German cooperation with southern Africa as a whole, and would be visiting South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in July.

26.   Perry last week indicated the United States was prepared to deepen defense cooperation with Israel to deter attacks from groups that oppose the Middle East peace process.

27.   The Bush administration also planned to deepen security cooperation with Armenia, the spokesman said.