And the two pledged to meet twice a year, beginning at the economic summit scheduled to be held in Toyko in July.

Bangladesh was selected to become the next chairman of NAM at the summit scheduled for Dhaka 2001, however it was later decided to host the summit at an alternative venue.

A summit between Germany, France and Italy, scheduled for Friday in Rome, has been postponed until February.

The summit originally scheduled for March of this year was scrapped over differences between the participants.

A summit between Germany, France and Italy, scheduled for January 20 in Rome, has been postponed until the end of February, Reuters reports.

Failure to resolve differences between the two sides reportedly contributed to the postponement of the US-Soviet summit scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [see p. 37945].

But the Egyptians are still threatening to cancel a regional economic summit, scheduled for Cairo in November, in order to keep pressure on both Tel Aviv and Washington, American officials say.

The next summit, scheduled for April of this year, could make a very important contribution to this matter, and there are high expectations of greater stringency and control over the unauthorised trading of nuclear materials.

There will be familiarity to start with: markets will rise towards the first summit, scheduled for the end of January, and plunge again in the aftermath of indecision.

But with another such summit scheduled next year in France - and with Britain, currently holding the European Union presidency, left out entirely - there were a lot of quizzical eyebrows raised.