11.   His commitment comes as the IMF mulls whether to end a nine-month moratorium over a dispute on the pace of economic reform and restart lending to Indonesia.

12.   Newly-elected French President Jacques Chirac announced last month that France would end its moratorium on testing in the South Pacific and carry out eight underground explosions.

13.   Officials of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum appeared ready to end a moratorium on new members by agreeing Saturday to focus instead on criteria for accepting applicants.

14.   The ecologists of Greenpeace warned that Chirac might end a moratorium on nuclear tests, while leftist leaders warned of strikes unless workers received pay raises.

15.   The ruling ended a moratorium imposed by a judge last November against the Agriculture Department.

16.   Yet, ending the moratorium, however, requires a three-fourths majority.

17.   The talks between the two leaders also came as Japan ended a moratorium on aid with a multi-million dollar package to China.

18.   It also comes two days after Japan ended a moratorium on aid with a multi-million-dollar package for health care in the Chinese city of Nanjing.

19.   Its decision to end a moratorium and carry out six final six tests, which ended in January, drew widespread international protests.

20.   It would end a moratorium on testing imposed under former president George Bush while the treaty was being negotiated.