1.   An international effort is required to cope with the urgent needs of the earthquake victims.

2.   Cambridge University is to coordinate an international effort to find out how the Chernobyl disaster caused a huge increase in child cancer.

3.   It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.

4.   The participating States welcome the international efforts to improve protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities.

5.   The US was accused of undermining international efforts to combat global warming.

6.   We shall only succeed in dealing with the problems through a vast international cooperative effort.

7.   What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

8.   As a large consumer of Middle Eastern oil, Japan had been criticized for not making a fuller contribution to the international effort against Iraq.

9.   The NATO leaders deplored the fighting in Yugoslavia and called on all parties to co-operate with international efforts to bring about a ceasefire.

10.   Hurd criticized the slowness of the international effort, and pledged that the EC would increase humanitarian aid.