Its chairmen will present their proposals to donor countries and institutions at the Vienna meeting next week.

The Vienna meeting began in November 1986 and was to end months ago, but the final document has been delayed by continuing differences.

Some progress was made at the Vienna meeting, according to officials who were there, but further talks remain necessary.

But that ambitious goal is not expected to be tackled at the Vienna meeting.

The United States has said that new talks on conventional arms cannot begin until the Vienna meeting is completed.

Upon their arrival, neither leader had addressed one another since the Vienna meeting.

At the Vienna meeting, these Asian countries argued that every culture has a different view of what human freedoms are essential.

This will be done unilaterally, without relation to the talks on the mandate of the Vienna meeting.

Since then it has rebounded to more than $15, in part because of anticipation of the Vienna meeting.