31.   -- A regional business council will be created to promote cross-border cooperation and trade in the private sector.

32.   A senator there said he would challenge the peace agreement once President Fidel Ramos signs the executive order creating the council.

33.   They also agreed to create a council aimed at restoring mutual trust, which will be composed of representatives from opposition parties.

34.   They had earlier rejected rebel calls for a national reconciliation council to be created as an interim government.

35.   Salah said he hoped the elections would create a council that could prevent arrests in the future.

36.   The French government adopted technical measures on Wednesday to end a monopoly enjoyed by stock brokers and to create a council to oversee financial markets.