1.   Moreover, he is irritated that when he and several other lawmakers tried to visit North Korea last summer, the North refused them visas.

2.   Participants feared many failed to show because China denied them visas for political reasons.

3.   Chiu accused China, which regained sovereignty over Hong Kong in July, of stopping the Hong Kong government from issuing them visas.

4.   Likely to remain in place are a freeze on assets held by some people linked to Milosevic and a ban on issuing them visas.

5.   NGO Forum organizers said this week they still are not sure how many women will not be able to attend because China would not issue them visas.

6.   Thai newspapers reported last year that about a dozen Thai politicians are on a U.S. blacklist denying them visas because of suspected involvement with narcotics trafficking.

7.   The group also could have gone to Nicaragua, which offered them temporary visas after lobbying by U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart.

8.   The United States had granted all of them visas.

9.   The visit became a certainty when the Japanese consulate general in the Russian Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok issued them visas, association members said.

10.   But officials said New Delhi refused them visas to visit Islamabad.