1.   ACP foreign ministers will discuss the membership bid at a meeting in Trinidad and Tobago next week.

2.   ACP foreign ministers meeting will discuss the membership bid at a meeting in Trinidad and Tobago next week.

3.   Beijing has said Taiwan must abandon its membership bid before talks between the two sides can resume.

4.   Barshefsky said she had been concerned about receiving mixed signals, but was now convinced China wanted to see its membership bid all the way through.

5.   China wins Pacific backing for its WTO membership bid.

6.   He declined to say how long the membership bid would take.

7.   However, Bulgaria is not as keen as Romania to make a joint membership bid.

8.   Other German leaders, including Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, are said to be more supportive of the Baltic membership bid.

9.   The government is apparently considering relaxing bans on broadcasting and education in Kurdish, in an effort to advance its membership bid.

10.   Turkey has threatened to end its decade-long EU membership bid unless the EU reconsidered its stance.