21.   The president said the new commission would oversee the tax and customs services to boost their performance, which he said was unacceptable.

22.   The Taliban says it is ready to open the roads once the commission can oversee it and a cease-fire.

23.   Yeltsin said the special commission would oversee the tax and customs service to boost their performance, which he said was unacceptable.

24.   The ceremony, overseen by commission President Romano Prodi and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, capped talks begun several years ago between the EU and Algeria.

25.   The commission is also overseeing demobilisation, still apparently incomplete weeks after it was due to end.