11.   Democracy advocates have meanwhile expressed alarm at the idea that officials might be appointed to run local governments after the current mandate runs out, without elections being held.

12.   EU representatives, whose mandate runs out in December, would meet twice weekly with the new Croat Mayor Ivan Prskalo and his Moslem deputy Safet Orucevic.

13.   The UN Security Council wound up another session Wednesday without agreement on the future of the UN mission in Haiti, whose mandate runs out Thursday.

14.   The United Nations is maintaining a UN observer mission in Liberia, whose current mandate runs out at the end of May.

15.   The United Nations is maintaining a UN observer mission in Liberia, and its current mandate runs out at the end of May.

16.   Its mandate runs for four years.

17.   NATO officials said the expansion of the mandate was prompted by a desire to see IFOR withdraw from Bosnia when or before its mandate runs out in December.

18.   Plans for a new peacekeeping force in Bosnia to replace one whose mandate runs out in December were also on the agenda.

19.   Santer is due to succeed Jacques Delors whose mandate runs out in January.

20.   The current mandate of UNIFIL runs until July.