81.   Egypt has been lobbying council members furiously to apply a permanent embargo, for which it voted last August.

82.   Egypt has been lobbying council members furiously to implement a permanent embargo.

83.   The Washington Post reported earlier that Malik had been lobbying members of Congress and otherwise campaigning to lift the UN economic embargo against his country.

84.   Mexican business groups also have lobbied members of the Congress in hopes of blocking the increase.