The planned conference led to allegations in newspaper reports that the party was linked to the July 2005 London bombings.

Pro-democracy campaigners dismissed the vote and the planned conference as a "charade" and accused the military of bidding to hold on to power.

Although work was done on the issue, a planned conference in 2008 in Rhode Island, USA failed to get off the ground.

Bookerites had been alerted to the planned conference, but one who traveled to Buffalo to investigate the conference found no activity there.

Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference, regarding it as undemocratic, and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution.

At the planned conference (8 September) O'Neill was present, but not Essex.

The Bush administration has said a planned international conference on the Middle East might have to be put off from early this summer until later this year.

And a pack of cyberlawyers are petitioning the White House for access to its planned conference on Internet privacy.

The faculty leaders are also seeking financing from the association for their planned national conferences.

Those suspicions were reconfirmed in May when the planned conference was postponed for the fourth time after no one showed up.