21.   Issues which negotiators hope to finish dealing with include import licensing and import quotas, licensing of services and technical matters relating to copyright and patents.

22.   Negotiators also hope to seek a compromise by taking the talks on fish quotas beyond this year to fix future catch limits.

23.   Negotiators hope to develop enforcement rules by November.

24.   Negotiators hope to have an agreement by mid-September on expanding autonomy in the West Bank.

25.   Negotiators initially had hoped that at least nine Western hostages would also be freed Wednesday in a deal bankrolled by Libya.

26.   Negotiators had hoped to reach agreement earlier in the week but suspended negotiations for two days in the aftermath of the U.S. terrorist attacks.

27.   Negotiators hope the proposals can help get the treaty completed by the June target.

28.   Negotiators hope to agree on a statute creating the court, which would prosecute individuals and not nations, during the five-week conference, which began Monday.

29.   Negotiators hope to agree on the accord by July, so it can be signed at the U.N. General Assembly in the fall.

30.   Negotiators hope to avert racism deadlock.