71. The council agreed to meet Wednesday afternoon. 72. The council has agreed to consider raising the ceiling after Annan reports on the status of the program next month. 73. The council has agreed to give preference to African candidates and consider non-Africans only if they cannot agree on a new U.N. chief. 74. The council unanimously agreed to reactivate the International Commission of Inquiry, and called on Secretary-General Kofi Annan to appoint its members. 75. The council agreed last April to let Iraq sell limited amounts of oil to buy humanitarian goods. 76. The council agreed last year to relax the sanctions to allow limited sales to reduce suffering among the Iraqis. 77. The council agreed to give preference to African candidates so the continent would have two terms in the top post, as is U.N. custom. 78. The council agreed to resume discussions Wednesday afternoon. 79. The council agreed to start exclusively using Interior Ministry troops rather than the army, but no timetable was given for the start of the police operation. 80. The council also agreed to a recommendation from Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that a permanent envoy be assigned to the region. |