81.   Rodney Page, director of the Church World Service, complained that council officials unilaterally hiked the fee.

82.   Roessle said Council officials are pleased that recent elections in Russia have been fair, and that the media operates in relative freedom.

83.   The assembly also voted Tuesday to renew membership negotiations with Russia, but set no timetable for talks, Council officials said.

84.   The assembly was also likely to vote later Tuesday to renew membership negotiations with Russia, Council officials said.

85.   The Council of Europe will not consider suspending new member Ukraine despite its sluggishness in abolishing the death penalty, a top council official said Wednesday.

86.   The indicators showed that the economy is already on a recovery track, said Hu Chung-ying, a Council official.

87.   The judges cleared three other council officials of gerrymandering, and withheld judgment against a sixth official because he is ill.

88.   High-tech equipment bought from Canada, including a gamma ray detector for radioactive fallout will be used, council officials said.

89.   In Nijmegen, also in the east, council officials turned up at the crisis centre in their free time to operate telephone exchanges.

90.   In the current debate, nearly half the members have given their views and discussion was to resume late Wednesday, a council official said.