In many respects the outcome of the gathering will determine whether Syria's leadership can ever reform itself.

Unless you treat Somalia as: Somaliland and proper Somalia, whatever you do, the outcome of the gathering in Uk in the near future already born premature.

With the Credentials Committee firmly in the hands of the Regulars from the outset, the outcome of the gathering was no longer in doubt and most of the remaining Left Wing delegates departed, to meet with other co-thinkers downstairs in a previously reserved room in a parallel convention.

The article twitted the platform, the theatrics and the preordained outcome of the gathering.

Both Israelis and Palestinians agree that further easing of tension will take time, and will depend in large measure on the outcome of the gathering of Israeli and Arab leaders in Washington this week.

Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Sharaa, praised the outcome of the gathering as "very good, positive, and important," and he predicted that it would "also lead to more pressure on those who go far from the bases of the peace process."