41.   The U.N. mission will be led by Gabonese military officers.

42.   The U.N. mission will be led by Staffan De Mistura, director of the U.N. Information Center in Rome.

43.   The United Nations Security Council gave Canada approval to lead the mission.

44.   The U.N. spokesman said that while Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky had planned to lead the mission he apparently was not on board Wednesday.

45.   The United States is expected to contribute up to half of the force, and Washington had reportedly demanded that a U.S. general lead the mission.

46.   U.S. troops had led the mission, but the bulk of U.S. soldiers left Haiti during the first two weeks in March.

47.   Watanabe led a mission to North Korea in March that discussed opening official talks on diplomatic ties, but the talks have not started.

48.   French Trade and Industry Minister Gerard Longuet, commenting in Beijing where he is leading a trade mission, said that competitors would use the arrest to their benefit.

49.   Former Spanish premier Felipe Gonzalez led the mission to Belgrade which authored the OSCE report.

50.   French Environment Minister Michel Barnier is to lead the mission to Ukraine aimed at pressing the Ukrainian authorities over the future of the power plant.