51.  The Pacific states of Michoacan and Sinaloa, Puebla and Tlaxcala in central Mexico and Tamaulipas to the north will also choose state deputies.

52.  The peace monitoring team was composed mainly of unarmed police officers from Australia, New Zealand and the neighboring Pacific states of Tonga, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands.

53.  The newspaper said Thursday that the arrests were made in the region of Los Loxichas in the southern Pacific coastal state of Oaxaca.

54.  Vanuatu, a former joint British-French colony, fares better than some other Pacific states in the confidential analysis.

55.  German aid to the Pacific states of Western Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea will also be discussed.

56.  Garrymere principal Ben Ensor said he had approached six Pacific states about setting up a quarantine station before deciding on a site here on the capital island of Rarotonga.

57.  He said the arms delivery to the neighbouring Pacific state was under a controversial mercenaries contract which Papua New Guinea suspended a week ago.

58.  Among these countries the tiny southern Pacific state of Nauru has been hit with sanctions, described by the FATF as counter-measures, aimed at monitoring major financial transactions.

59.  As one official here noted, some Pacific states are approached almost weekly by shadowy companies offering lucrative but illegal business schemes.

60.  Australia is also courting other Pacific states such as Kiribati and Palau to accept the boat people Canberra rejects.