1.   Congress and the president will determine before the end of this period whether its mandate should be extended.

2.   Eurotunnel also said it would ask a Paris court to extend the mandates of two mediators appointed in mid-February to assist in the bank talks.

3.   Eurotunnel has asked a Paris court to extend the mandate of two mediators appointed in mid-February to assist in the bank talks.

4.   In July, their mandate was extended by two months.

5.   More immediately, the United States has demanded a clause to that effect in the resolution extending the mandate of the force in Bosnia.

6.   Only hours before the expiration of the current peacekeeping mandate, the Security Council unanimously approved three resolutions that extend the mandate in all three countries for eight months.

7.   Organization officials said they had not yet presented the Bosnian Serbs with the document that would extend the mandate.

8.   President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah asked Parliament on Wednesday to extend his mandate for six months after his government called off a presidential poll due in February, citing insecurity.

9.   That peacekeeping mandate was later extended through next June.

10.   The government later extended the mandate, but it is scheduled to expire at the end of November.