11.   An international commission established to consider arms issues could be the mechanism for circumventing the arms and talks roadblocks.

12.   Assicurazioni Generali and other insurance companies contend that the international commission is the proper venue for resolving the Holocaust assets issue.

13.   At the same time, however, Sinn Fein made public a new proposal for the eventual disarmament, which it said it had submitted to the international commission.

14.   A proposal to delegate the issue of disarming to an international commission, which would allow both sides to save face, still seems the best solution.

15.   According to Irish government sources, civil servants from both sides had arranged for an international commission that would set parameters on how weapons decommissioning would take place.

16.   Also intimidated by the international scandal, the Swiss Parliament has approved the appointment of a second international commission.

17.   Bush meanwhile chaired a session of the National Security Council devoted to the proposals in the report of the international commission, headed by former Senator George Mitchell.

18.   But Israeli and Palestinian officials dampened expectations, saying fundamental differences remained over Palestinian demands that an international commission probe the recent violence.

19.   Committee members also asked why the service obtains its scientific information on Atlantic tuna stock through ICATT, the international commission for tuna conservation.

20.   He was referring to recommendations made four months ago by an international commission led by former United States Senator George J. Mitchell.