1.   He led the exploratory mission.

2.   Japan will send a small unmanned spacecraft to Mars in July for a two-year exploratory mission, Kyodo News reported Wednesday.

3.   The exploratory mission will try to set the conditions for a resumption of dialogue, building on recent conciliatory signals from Havana, Malherbe said.

4.   For the first time, a British building industry delegation also was in Havana on an exploratory mission, accompanied by a British environment official.

5.   He said that the charity, which had sent exploratory missions to Uganda, Tanzania and Zaire, had important stocks of relief aid in Kampala and Kigali.

6.   A delegation of the French board of industry, the CNPF went to Iraq last June on an exploratory mission.

7.   A German military spokesman said Friday security problems at Bagram air base near Kabul had delayed an exploratory mission by a small group of German officers.

8.   Two senior MSF doctors will try to establish during an eight-day exploratory mission if the general health of the local community has been affected.

9.   Zotov, who took over as Russian peace envoy last month from Vitali Churkin, undertook a first exploratory mission to Belgrade earlier this month.

10.   Meanwhile a German military spokesman said security problems at Bagram air base near Kabul had delayed an exploratory mission by a small group of German officers.