1.   It is productive to agree these rules with children rather than dictate them.

2.   Now one of the reasons a lot of delegations go wrong, is because we think we have agreed ground rules with people.

3.   After the new safety rules were originally agreed in July, the U.S. said they threatened exports of U.S. products worth billions of dollars.

4.   Its rules are agreed by member governments which, unlike anti-WTO lobbies, are mostly elected and accountable to voters.

5.   But NATO ambassadors meeting in Brussels Monday failed to agree any rules on the use of such air power.

6.   Haron said it was disappointing to see some developed countries taking unilateral actions before ground rules have been agreed by World Trade Organization members.

7.   The EU agriculture ministers also agreed rules on compensating farmers for losses caused by currency fluctuations.

8.   The OSCE said the Provisional Election Commission, which includes Croat, Moslem and Serb representatives, has still not agreed the rules for the elections.

9.   Lee said he hoped these rules could be agreed by May.