After the vote,British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant read a statement on behalf of the group's foreign ministers, which said the door to continued negotiation would remain open.

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Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.

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"A lot of large institutions are selling European sovereign debt and the corresponding CDSs because they don't feel like they have adequate insurance, " says Mark Grant, of Southwest Securities, a Texas-based investment firm.

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Security Council members are backing Annan's efforts, said Mark Lyall Grant, the British ambassador to the United Nations and the current council president.

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