11.   Ireland holds the current EU presidency.

12.   Argentina holds the current presidency of the Mercosur trade bloc, also made up of Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, with Chile and Bolivia as associate members.

13.   Blair was to meet on Friday with Prime Minister Wim Kok of The Netherlands, which holds the current rotating EU presidency.

14.   Both Wallstroem and Spanish Environment Minister Jaume Matas Palou, whose country holds the current presidency of the EU, insisted that only multilateral agreements would work.

15.   But both Wallstroem and Spanish Environment Minister Jaume Matas Palou, whose country holds the current presidency of the EU, insisted that only multilateral agreements would work.

16.   Ireland currently holds the current EU presidency.

17.   Juppe, whose government holds the current European Union presidency, will be joined Thursday morning by Klaus Kinkel of Germany and Javier Solana of Spain.

18.   Kinkel said in a statement that Spain, which holds the current EU presidency, should hold an immediate extraordinary session of its working group on Africa in Brussels.

19.   Lithuania-Spain-EU VILNIUS Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose country holds the current EU presidency, visits.

20.   Prime Minister John Bruton of Ireland, the current EU presidency, presented a draft outline for a revised Maastricht Treaty.