This would mean that for the fourth time in succession a summit meeting of industrial nations will have failed to obtain progress on trade.

It was his first visit outside Africa or the Arab world since attending a summit meeting of nonaligned nations in Belgrade nearly 15 years ago.

He was also eager to welcome the summit meeting of leading industrial nations, to take place in Okinawa in July.

He has not even responded to Parliament's vote, brushing aside questions about it at a summit meeting of developing nations.

A summit meeting of French-speaking nations has ended with a commitment to strengthen the group as a forum for political and economic consultation and cooperation.

At the summit meeting of top industrial nations, protesters and riot police clashed anew, one day after a protester was killed.

The issue may be discussed at the summit meeting of industrialized nations in Genoa, Italy, later this month.

The annual summit meeting of Asean nations is being held here this year, with Malaysia as chairman.

It will be a main topic at the annual summit meeting of industrialized nations this week in Cologne, Germany.

Forty-seven countries attended the summit meeting of francophone nations in Mauritius last October.