21.   Meskini, who was also waiting for a sentencing date, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a cooperation deal with prosecutors.

22.   The Angolan government recently signed a military cooperation deal, including weapons maintenance, with Russia.

23.   The armed forces also made Erbakan retreat from his campaign pledge to cancel a military cooperation deal allowing Israeli jets to train in Turkish airspace.

24.   The agreement extends a more limited cooperation deal that expires next June.

25.   The crisis ended in October when Syria signed a security cooperation deal with Turkey and ousted Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

26.   The companies, AO Mikrodin and FPG Interros, would confirm only that some cooperation deal is in the works.

27.   The company signed a cooperation deal with China Telecom last week that will allow it to offer both domestic and international long distance, the report said.

28.   The European Commission urged EU governments Friday to endorse a draft trade and political cooperation deal with South Africa concluded after four years of tortuous negotiations.

29.   The groundbreaking marked the start of an economic cooperation deal between Taiwan and Macedonia, which established diplomatic ties earlier this year.

30.   The ministry also argued that a cooperation deal reached between an Albanian and a Kosovo bank was illegal.