51.   The WTO is an international trade organization with broad authority to set rules and arbitrate disputes between nations.

52.   Yemen reportedly has proposed establishing a committee composed of countries in the region to arbitrate the dispute.

53.   But many sources close to the WTO hold that it has got off to a good start in arbitrating trade disputes.

54.   Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Galo Leoro told AFP Friday his government would ask Pope John Paul II to arbitrate the dispute if the talks in Brazil fail.

55.   The World Trade Organization received seven new requests on Wednesday to arbitrate trade disputes in the first batch of complaints this year, diplomats said in Geneva.

56.   The WTO set up a panel to arbitrate the dispute, but Washington has refused to accept its intervention on what it sees as an issue of national security.

57.   Shop security guards had to step in to break up the incident, while a shop manager arbitrated the dispute.