Sentence examples for before the summit between from inspiring English sources
The various expeditions — with members from several countries, including South Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Italy, the United States and France — set off from Camp 4, the last camp before the summit, between midnight and 3 a.m., Mr. Rice said.
The half-hour meeting between the Pakistani leader and the Kashmiris was more than long enough to stir the political pot before the summit between Musharraf and Vajpayee, scheduled to last 4 1/2 hours today near the Taj Mahal in the northern Indian city of Agra.
Moscow seems to have quieted its political and verbal assault on the Baltic republics in recent days in what some Soviet officials say is an attempt to play down the issue in the weeks before the summit meeting between President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Bush.
The statement comes less than a month before the scheduled summit between Kim and Trump -- the first face-to-face meeting between sitting leaders from the two nations.
Last year, the exercises — on a larger scale — were called off before the first summit between Trump and Kim in Singapore.
The lack of such details in the Trump-Kim statement suggested that despite many rounds of lower-level talks before the summit meeting, wide mistrust persists between the two sides.
The decision was criticised by China, Germany and a few other nations as a form of monetary protectionism before the summit, and clearly soured the mood between the major G20 participants.
But before the summit showdown, one issue is already causing conflict between the Conservative government and the European Commission - Mediterranean migrant boats.
Only days before the summit, negotiations with Turkey were on the brink of collapse after a spat between Turkey and Cyprus.
But he also said they needed to reduce the gap between them over the extent and pace of nuclear disarmament before the summit could go ahead.
