41.   Asked why it took so long to resolve the impasse, Hodler laid the blame on the Japanese organizers.

42.   Attempts by Commonwealth Secretary General Chief Ameka Anyauko to resolve the impasse have failed.

43.   Australian Resources Minister Warwick Parer said he planned to contact his Japanese counterpart, Fisheries Minister Yoshinobu Shimamura, this week to try to resolve the impasse.

44.   Badawi added that a visit to Baghdad by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan could help resolve the impasse.

45.   Barshefsky said that while no further meetings were scheduled in the telephone dispute, she expected both sides would get together again to try to resolve the impasse.

46.   Blair personally intervened in talks last month but was unable to get the parties to agree on a formula for resolving the impasse.

47.   But it was unclear whether the impasse would be resolved by then.

48.   But they could not agree on who goes first, and the dispute persisted until party sages devised an original method to resolving the impasse.

49.   Chaldean activists are asking U.S. officials to help resolve the impasse.

50.   Defense Agency chief Seishiro Eto is scheduled to visit Okinawa this weekend in an effort to resolve the impasse.