31.   The peacekeeping mandate can only be changed by the council.

32.   The report called for clearer peacekeeping mandates and recommended that the council hold off on approving new missions until the United Nations has received firm pledges for troops.

33.   The U.N. peacekeeping mandate was supposed to end last month.

34.   The United Nations changed its peacekeeping mandate, but so far, no U.N. troops have been deployed on the borders.

35.   The western alliance has always said it will not seek out and arrest war crimes suspects saying that was not its job under the United Nations peacekeeping mandate.

36.   The western alliance has said it will not seek out and arrest war crimes suspects, since that was not its job under the United Nations peacekeeping mandate.

37.   The Security Council on Tuesday held a day-long open debate on the renewal of the peacekeeping mandate.

38.   They also retain their existing peacekeeping mandates in Bosnia and Macedonia.

39.   The vote came just hours before the midnight expiration of the current peacekeeping mandate in Yugoslavia.

40.   UN special envoy Yasushi Akashi rejected the proposal, saying he would not consult the rebel Serbs on any modification of the UN peacekeeping mandate.