51.   The Security Council is expected to re-examine the sanctions before Monday but has ruled out any immediate modifications in the sanctions regime, Western diplomats said.

52.   The UN Security Council is expected to vote within days on a US-sponsored reform of the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq.

53.   The UN Security Council maintained Friday the sanctions regime against Iraq, scoring Baghdad for having hidden a large-scale biological weapons program.

54.   The same day, the council decided to maintain the sanctions regime.

55.   The United States plans to seek once more to revise the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq when the UN Security Council meets to extend the program.

56.   The UN Security Council maintained Friday the sanctions regime against Iraq, accusing Baghdad of having hidden a large-scale biological weapons program.

57.   The UN Security Council was to decide Thursday whether to prolong the sanctions regime that was eased last September after Belgrade cut off ties with the Bosnian Serbs.

58.   US officials stress that the implementation of the oil-for-food deal is a temporary exemption to the sanctions regime.

59.   Under the present United Nations sanctions regime, trade with Iraq is restricted to food, medicines and other essential humanitarian goods.

60.   Washington feared that the Iraqi government was seeking to import technology and thus contravene the sanctions regime which is to remain in place.