31.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan offers to send mission to Iraq.

32.   The Arab League, Turkey and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were also sending missions this week.

33.   The agency will send a mission to help repatriate all those who now want to return, said spokesman Ron Redmond.

34.   The Arab League, Turkey and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are also sending peace missions this week.

35.   The Caribbean Community opposes the U.S. embargo and has sent trade missions to Havana.

36.   The group has sent peace missions to Afghanistan and mediated talks that ended a Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines earlier this year.

37.   The government will continue to offer tax exemptions, send trade missions abroad and carry out other activities to attract foreign investments, he said.

38.   The IMF said Friday it would send a mission to Argentina at some unspecified point.

39.   The smaller mission was then sent as a follow-up.

40.   The United Nations was eager to send a mission to Afghanistan because it no longer has non-Afghan staff working in the country, a U.N. official said.