71.   Chirac said the ministerial conference would take place in mid-July in Paris.

72.   Chirac said the ministerial conference would take place in mid-July in Paris and involve foreign ministers and their colleagues with responsibility for security issues.

73.   The UN population conference has taken up the fight against the traditional practice of female circumcision, which leaves two million young girls scarred for life each year.

74.   Vershbow, speaking at the White House after President Bill Clinton announced the agreement, said the conference could take place in about two weeks.

75.   Under pressure from the timber industry as well as Brazil, the conference took no action on mahogany trees found mainly in Brazil and Africa.

76.   WTO ministerial conferences take place every two years.

77.   Israeli public radio, quoting senior officials, said the conference could take place in around six weeks.

78.   It quoted Russian sources as saying that Moscow would like to see such a conference take place in the last two weeks in June.

79.   Nor was it clear whether the conference would take any definitive action on Bosnia.

80.   One of the key resolutions the conference took was to allow ex-convicts to run for the office of president after a seven-year moratorium.