1.   WHO also urged each country to conduct scientific studies to determine more accurately how often Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease affects humans.

2.   A prominent human rights group was urging donor countries attending the Tokyo meeting to link development with stipulations that Vietnam improve its human rights record.

3.   A United Nations food agency on Thursday urged those countries which have not yet banned the antiobiotic behind a German food scare to end its use.

4.   And it urged countries trying to develop market economies to avoid fixed currency exchange rates and to control short-term capital inflows.

5.   Camdessus urged countries to use the crisis to make fundamental economic reforms and avert a recession.

6.   Egypt ruled out reducing its oil exports and urged OPEC countries on Tuesday to convene an emergency meeting to consider the impact of Iraqi oil returning to the market.

7.   Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Thursday urged western countries not to be tempted to reduce security financing following the capture of several al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan.

8.   He urged the country to press ahead with privatization, saying this would help create jobs.

9.   He urged Muslim countries to pool resources for scholarships so the brightest among them can study abroad and return to help build their homelands.

10.   Iraq on Tuesday urged Arab countries to use oil as a weapon to pressure the United States to force Israel to withdraw its forces from Palestinian areas.