11.   At the EU meeting today, France sought backing for a tougher peacekeeping mandate.

12.   Canadian Cooperation Minister Pierre Pettigrew planned talks with President Rene Preval Tuesday on a possible extension of the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in Haiti.

13.   Canadian soldiers will remain in Haiti until the end of the year, five months longer than a U.N. peacekeeping mandate requires, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy announced.

14.   China nearly blocked an extension of the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in Haiti last month.

15.   Collenette said two battalions are prepared to leave Monday if Canada decides to renew its peacekeeping mandate in Bosnia and Croatia.

16.   Its peacekeeping mandate in Croatia ends tonight at midnight, and intense negotiations are under way over prolonging it.

17.   Japan voiced concern Friday over mounting tensions in the former Yugoslavia where a U.N. peacekeeping mandate expires the same day.

18.   President Franjo Tudjman told the United Nations on Thursday that he wanted the peacekeeping mandate in Croatia terminated in March, state media reported.

19.   President Rene Preval has asked the U.N. Security Council to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in Haiti through next July in order to continue the police-training mission.

20.   Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic believes the tension stems in part from the flawed U.N. peacekeeping mandate.