11.   Last month, as the United States stepped up efforts to bring peace to the Balkans, Greece agreed to drop a crippling economic embargo on Macedonia.

12.   Last month, as the United States stepped up its efforts to bring peace to the Balkans, Greece agreed to drop a crippling economic embargo on Macedonia.

13.   Last month, as the United States stepped up its efforts to bring peace to the Balkans, Greece agreed to drop its crippling economic embargo on Macedonia.

14.   France and Russia, permanent members of the Security Council, have led calls for an easing of the crippling embargo once Iraq meets United Nations conditions on disarmament.

15.   Greece will lift its crippling economic embargo against Macedonia under an agreement to be signed in New York next week, a UN mediator said Tuesday.

16.   In September the council maintained the crippling embargo despite the Iraqi revelations, after Washington said the new information proved that Iraq had lied in the past.

17.   Iraq recently dismantled the bogus companies, which had sprung up since the United Nations imposed a crippling embargo on Baghdad four years ago.

18.   Baghdad has been lobbying hard for the crippling embargo to be lifted.

19.   Baghdad has been pressing the United Nations to lift the crippling embargo which has sent inflation spiralling and forced the government to cut food rations.

20.   Baghdad has repeatedly urged the UN to lift the crippling embargo, which has caused rampant inflation and forced the government to cut food rations.