Each delegation announces its vote tallies, usually accompanied with some boosterism of their state or territory.
Each delegation publicly announces itself satisfied at some appropriate point of the ceremony.
The delegation also announced plans for a $16-million renovation of a Cuban electric power station near Santiago de Cuba.
A Spanish delegation met with Bolivian officials on Friday and announced a willingness to continue negotiating.
Today, the congressional delegation announced the release of $3.6 million for Vermont.
On Thursday the two sides met only briefly and today, the South Korean delegation announced that it was leaving.
Vermont will receive more than $18 million to help the state implement a new national health care reform law, the state's congressional delegation announced today.
Vermont's congressional delegation recently announced a $1.2 million emergency grant to create jobs for displaced workers to help with flooding clean up.
Rhode Island's congressional delegation today announced over $3.44 million in federal crime prevention funding for Rhode Island.
Also, she said, the American delegation announced that it would leave the negotiations this morning.