José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the president of Spain, addressed the session on encouraging the use of renewable energy sources.
During an all-parties political conference in Islamabad last week, Shiite leaders walked out in protest when Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, the leader of a Sunni extremist political party, addressed the session.
At a recent meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences, for example, Mark Siegler, a bioethicist at the University of Chicago, and Irving L. Weissman, a Stanford biologist who studies stem cells of the bone marrow, were highly critical of the advocates for human cloning invited to address the session.
Li was addressing the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC), the largely rubber-stamp parliament that meets annually in Beijing.
In addressing the closing session, Dr. Joep Lange of the University of Amsterdam and the new president of the International AIDS Society, pointed to changes that had occurred in the two years since the Durban conference.
A1 No Attack to Force Inspections Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, speaking with reporters after addressing the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, said the United States would not use force to make Iraq allow international arms inspections to resume.
Addressing the final session of the Society of Editors conference in Belfast on Tuesday, Flynn said that the Leveson inquiry had already had a significant effect on freedom of speech in the UK.
Addressing the opening session of the National People's Congress, China's largely rubber-stamp parliament, Xi said pollution is "nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development".
Addressing the first session of congress on Tuesday, Macri said: "Let's not forget that little more than a year ago prosecutor Alberto Nisman appeared dead in circumstances that remain uncertain but that are slowly starting to clear up".
Addressing the opening session, Mr Orban said: "Anti-Semitism is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated".
