American officials say they are not asking other countries to contribute troops to an invasion.

He asked other countries to help free American hostages, a plea he repeated yesterday.

Today the court refused to send some official letters asking foreign countries to help the defense.

But it also asked both countries "to begin immediately intensive negotiations for the resolution of their differences."

We're asking very poor countries to set aside land they could be cultivating food on - we have to give them something in return.

What our trade policy has lacked is courage to ask other countries directly to open their markets.

The government even asked other countries for help, but the investigation has yielded no results to date.

And we cannot do that just by asking countries to coordinate their policies.

France also hopes to discuss asking other countries to increase their forces in Bosnia.

Recently Burundi asked neighboring countries to create a special security force to protect civil servants and public institutions.