41.   Last week, the United Nations extended its mandate to administer the region for another six months.

42.   Last month, Erbakan extended the mandate for a U.S.-led force to use a Turkish air base to protect Kurdish enclaves in neighboring Iraq.

43.   Nevertheless, NATO members did not want to address the possibility of extending the mandate yet.

44.   NATO wants to extend its mandate, currently limited to Bosnia, to cover shelling from Croatian Serb land into Bosnia.

45.   Parliament had passed a law extending the mandate, but President Nelson Mandela had not yet signed it when Botha was called.

46.   Parliament on Tuesday extended the mandate of a U.S.-led military operation protecting Iraqi Kurds until the end of July.

47.   Parliament on Wednesday extended the mandate for the U.S.-led Western air force protecting Iraqi Kurds for another six months.

48.   OSCE is seeking to extend that mandate because progress in forging a peaceful and united Bosnia is lagging.

49.   OSCE is seeking to extend that mandate, since progress in forging a peaceful and united Bosnia is lagging.

50.   President Rene Preval, after his inauguration in February, swiftly appealed to the United Nations to extend the mandate of the peacekeeping force.