Still, the resolution backing the euro passed easily with the support of the Socialists and the conservative Union for French Democracy.

Moderates wanted a quick resolution backing the military and the president, but some liberals balked.

And last week, the National Association of Counties, meeting in St. Louis, passed a resolution backing the right of municipalities to require open access.

In March, Republicans in the United States House of Representatives successfully sponsored a resolution backing the Ten Commandments.

The nonbinding resolution backing President Clinton's plan to assign 4,000 soldiers to a peacekeeping force passed 219-191.

Another resolution backing the report was passed despite American opposition and EU abstention.

Only four countries announced they would support a resolution backing the war.

The 53-state commission passed two resolutions backing its special investigator, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a former Polish prime minister, who held Serb leaders to have 'primary responsibility'.

The parliament also enacted resolutions backing a plan to dissolve Yugoslavia.

(NL ) Mr President, I think the best thing Parliament can do at this time is to approve the resolution backing the workers at Vilvoorde.