51.   One major question that the meeting will consider will be bringing a multinational force into Kabul to provide security, which some alliance commanders have rejected.

52.   Pakistan called for a United Nations peacekeeping force, or a multinational force authorized by the U.N. Security Council, to restore order in Afghanistan.

53.   People from every province asked me to help get a multinational force here.

54.   Right now there is a fight within the administration over whether to allow a robust multinational force here, and whether to participate in it ourselves.

55.   Russia, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, supported the creation of a U.N.-backed multinational force in Haiti.

56.   Russian troops, in fact, function under NATO direction in the multinational force in Bosnia, but little is said about the arrangement.

57.   Russians are already part of a similar multinational force in Bosnia.

58.   Seven southeastern European countries agreed Saturday to create a multinational military force that could be used for peacekeeping or aid operations in the Balkans and elsewhere.

59.   Small groups of Army guardsmen have joined the multinational peacekeeping force now based in the Sinai.

60.   The agency is a multinational force overseeing foreign aid here.