31.   Both Mexico and Saudi Arabia want to improve oil cooperation.

32.   Bush and Koizumi announced an initiative called the U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership for Growth, which they said was aimed at improving cooperation on trade and economic issues.

33.   But governments have been slow to improve police cooperation or create a legal framework to deal with crimes like money laundering.

34.   But they said questions on how to improve international cooperation remain unanswered.

35.   But it left unresolved many key details of how to improve such cooperation.

36.   But it unresolved many key details of how to improve such cooperation.

37.   China and Russia plan to improve cooperation in enforcing controls on their thriving border trade, state-run media reported Tuesday.

38.   During the two-day visit, the two leaders are to sign treaties to improve cooperation in combating drugs and eradicating land mines along the frontier.

39.   Forestry ministers Friday affirmed the need to improve cooperation on forest management, slowing deforestation and trade in forest products.

40.   France has recently proposed ways to kick-start troubled economies and improve international cooperation to rescue countries from debt woes.