31.   The joint commission is to meet today, with the two houses of Congress meeting as early as Friday to vote again on a compromise bill.

32.   The joint commission had recently visited and accredited all those hospitals.

33.   The Russian Defense Ministry has informally proposed setting up a joint commission to study the nuclear threat posed by unstable or terrorist nations.

34.   This is the joint commission looking into whether American service personnel from the Korea, Vietnam or Cold wars were spirited into the former Soviet Union.

35.   Trade and immigration and citizenship matters lead the list of issues that the new joint commission will have to address.

36.   Panama and Mexico have agreed to create a joint commission to fight drug trafficking.

37.   Portugal, the United States and Russia are observers on the joint commission.

38.   Peru has proposed creating a joint negotiating commission.

39.   Philippine Secretary Domingo Siazon has been in Hanoi since Sunday attending a three-day meeting of a joint commission overseeing bilateral ties.

40.   A joint commission of rebel and government officials overseeing the accord met for the first time today in Lusaka, Lusa reported.