1.   He said he could only hope that members would come to support a new consensus on either language or implementation of the peacekeeping mandate, or both.

2.   He said those who do not understand the limited peacekeeping mandate and demand more aggressive action are also those who are quick to call the troops home.

3.   Headquarters consistently decided to apply the mandate in a manner which would preserve a neutral role of Unamir under a traditional peacekeeping mandate.

4.   Only in Macedonia, another former republic of Yugoslavia, did the council extend its peacekeeping mandate for a full six months, the duration previously applied.

5.   Only hours before the expiration of the current peacekeeping mandate, the Security Council unanimously approved three resolutions that extend the mandate in all three countries for eight months.

6.   Soon the remaining aged Krajina Serbs will be abandoned by the United Nations, whose peacekeeping mandate in Croatia expires next month.

7.   That peacekeeping mandate was later extended through next June.

8.   The three peacekeeping mandates were due to expire on Thursday.

9.   This would leave only Macedonia under the U.N. regional peacekeeping mandate.

10.   At a meeting Monday of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, France got the backing it sought for a tougher peacekeeping mandate.