"I prefer an absolute ban, but anything is better than the system we have now."

"I think there should be an absolute ban," she said.

First, the country bringing the case, Australia, has had an absolute ban on imports of sugar for 70 years.

"The plan is not for an absolute, total ban on all arms to the region."

But in the long-term the organisation wants an absolute ban.

China has supported an absolute ban but said it would go along with a low threshold if the other nuclear powers wanted one.

That finding made it easier for the President to approve an absolute ban.

Reproductive cloning has never been at issue and an absolute international ban is called for.

It means an absolute ban on the cloning of humans.

"There should be no absolute ban on mergers among large banks, insurance companies or other financial institutions," the report said.