The Council is expected to accept Iraq's offer to send a high-level mission to New York next month to discuss its attitude toward the disarmament plan.

Two high-level missions to the United States that offered additional supplies of heating oil also made clear this spirit of cooperation.

And a high-level Libyan mission is now here negotiating purchases of arms and military equipment expected to exceed $1 billion.

A high-level Pakistani mission was sent to Vienna where both countries signed an agreement promising not to attack or assist a foreign power to attack each other's facilities.

The sales have been the main purpose of a weeklong visit here by a high-level Libyan military mission, which is interested in exchanging arms and vehicles for oil.

He led high-level diplomatic missions to the United States during the Nixon, Reagan and Clinton Administrations.

Mr. Bush sends a high-level mission to China but keeps that fact hidden.

A high-level mission was dispatched by the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, last week.

But that does not require paying special deference to the present Chinese leadership, as President Bush did when he sent his high-level mission to Beijing.

In sending a high-level mission to the unrepentant rulers of China, President Bush acted on the premises of a particular world view.