31.   The U.N. conference is charged with improving international crime-fighting techniques and cooperation as crime becomes increasingly global in scope.

32.   Top Hollywood studio executives attended the opening session of contract talks with screenwriters on Monday in a gesture of cooperation as both sides sought to allay strike fears.

33.   Volkov and other scientists see the emphasis on cooperation as some vindication for the decades of work they put in as Biopreparat researchers.

34.   Western Europe has long objected to U.S. efforts to isolate Cuba, preferring economic cooperation as a way to encourage reform there.

35.   ASEAN has identified economic integration and cooperation as being key to competing in the tough new competitive environment.

36.   The reports by Israeli newspaper have sparked uproar in the Middle East, with Iran, Syria and Egypt all denouncing the reported cooperation as a threat to security.

37.   They said it was important to enhance policy cooperation as the interdependence of member economies increase to make them more resilient to external shocks from outside the region.

38.   The finance ministers also agreed to establish a joint economic commission to boost cooperation as relations normalise following the collpase of the Taliban regime, he said.