In October, however, Qatar acknowledged that it might not have enough hotel beds for the five-day meeting, and other countries were encouraged to make bids.

He also pays for his operators, full-time headquarters employees and all their spouses to attend a five-day meeting each February - this year in Bermuda.

Iran's delegation to the Islamic Conference Organization walked out of the five-day meeting Thursday.

The racing is high class, the prize-money levels have remained high and, apart from Ascot, it is the only five-day meeting in the south.

That could happen at the league's five-day meeting in Hawaii beginning March 20.

The five-day meeting ended on a note of excitement and caution.

At the public session in a harborside convention center that opened the five-day meeting, the differences on South Africa and other issues were aired politely.

The demo was further tested after the five-day meeting, resulting in the complete game being released during March.

More than 10,000 globalization opponents have come to Florence to begin a five-day meeting that will include an antiwar demonstration on Saturday.

The actions came after a five-day meeting of the Central Committee that ended Sept. 30 with a decision to reorient the country's economic policies.