21.   It has blamed slow U.N. bureaucratic procedures for the delay in getting food and medicine to the people.

22.   Jordan and the Palestinians have complained that Israel has hindered trade between them by delays and bureaucratic procedures it imposes on border points under its control.

23.   Jordan has accused Israel of impeding such exchange through overly bureaucratic procedures at the crossing points between Jordan and the West Bank.

24.   Jordanian and Palestinian businessmen have long complained that Israeli bureaucratic procedures at border points linking Jordan with the West Bank hampered their trade.

25.   Jose Machado, undersecretary for public works and transport in the Portuguese enclave, blamed bureaucratic procedures for the delay, LUSA said.

26.   Obtaining the card did not require the bureaucratic procedures of a visa.

27.   Senegalese troops and bureaucratic procedures reportedly have prevented food and medicine from reaching the displaced.

28.   Syria has not been as successful as Egypt at luring foreign partners, and analysts at the conference blamed this on cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.

29.   The delays were blamed on bureaucratic procedures at the United Nations.

30.   The government provides welfare for the jobless, but critics say bureaucratic procedures make it hard to collect.