1.   Jon Sigurdsson, the commercial counselor in the United States for the Trade Council of Iceland, said the country purposely set out to woo the international market.

2.   Last Monday, Alaa el-Din Nazmi, an Egyptian commercial counselor, was shot to death in his apartment building in Geneva, Switzerland.

3.   North Korea wants the diplomat, who worked as a commercial counselor in the Bangkok embassy, sent back to face the charges in his home country.

4.   Vietnam Tuesday condemned the slaying of its diplomat, a commercial counselor in Algiers.

5.   Vietnam Tuesday condemned the Algerian terrorists and identified the dead diplomat as Bui Giang To, commercial counselor at the Vietnamese Embassy in Algiers.