51.   A senior Russian official told a WTO meeting that government reforms were on track to achieve the open market conditions demanded by the trade body.

52.   A new round of talks aimed at bringing China into the world trade body started in Geneva on Wednesday.

53.   A U.N. trade body threatened with the ax earlier this year has a central role to play as champion of poorer nations, its new head said Tuesday.

54.   A week of procedural wrangling had paralyzed the trade body and raised fears about its ability to work in future.

55.   After the report is filed, any single member of Congress can sponsor a resolution to withdraw from the trade body.

56.   Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief said Thursday that the federal government believes the world trade body has made a mistake in its ruling handed down last week.

57.   Any adverse ruling against the United States would likely turn an already critical Congress against the fledgling trade body.

58.   As successor to the General Agreememt on Tariffs and Trade, the Geneva-based WTO is the main world trade oversight body.

59.   Australia is a lead negotiator for wool at the world trade body.

60.   Both also welcomed the accession to the world trade body of China and Taiwan.