News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 90

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 07 (IPS) - The U.N.'s major troop contributors are complaining they are being shut out of the decision-making process in the Security Council.

CARACAS, Nov 07 (IPS) - The president of Venezuelan Petroleum (PDVSA), Luis Giusti, proposed that the state-run company act as a lever for national industrialisation, in Venezuela's fifth petroleum congress, which began Monday.

MEXICO CITY, Nov 07 (IPS) - Mexican government officials, experts and analysts expressed their concern Monday about a bill to be voted on in the U.S. state of California on Tuesday which would block undocumented workers and their families from using social services.