11.   Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring visited Athens Friday for talks with with Pangalos in a last-ditch effort to persuade Greece to lift its veto of the MEDA aid.

12.   Reppas said Greece would not lift its veto of the five-year aid package.

13.   Spring visited Athens Friday for talks with Pangalos in a last-ditch effort to persuade Greece to lift its veto of the money.

14.   The clause that membership talks with Cyprus will start has become the only major sticking point preventing Greece from lifting its veto.

15.   The foreign ministry said Monday it expected that Greece would lift its veto on a multi-million dollar European Union aid package for Turkey during talks in Luxembourg.

16.   The United States should lift its veto on disbursing millions of dollars in aid to impoverished Haiti, members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus said Friday.

17.   Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Omer Akbel said Turkey was expecting Greece to lift its veto on a multi-million dollar European Union aid package for Turkey during talks in Luxembourg.

18.   Greece was ready to lift its veto of the first tranche of an EU loan to Albania if Tirana changed its attitude, he added.

19.   Greece, which had blocked the EU-Turkey customs union, said it accepted the deal which would allow it to lift its veto.

20.   Given the unlikelihood the United States will ever lift their veto on Boutros-Ghali, it appears that he may not remain the sole African champion for long.