Gillard then convened an expert panel and, on its recommendation, shifted policy again to resume offshore processing on Manus Island and Nauru – as had long been advocated by the Coalition.
AOn Wednesday, colleagues of Daly will present a substantially identical resolution on greenhouse gas emissions at a shareholder meeting convened by fellow oil company Chevron.
He was elected Stormont deputy first minister when the Stormont assembly was first convened in 1998, although he is now performing this role in a semi-official capacity since the first minister, David Trimble, resigned over lack of movement on IRA arms in July.
Prime Minister Abbott probably still won't be going to the summit of world leaders being convened in September by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to try and boost ambitions on greenhouse gas cuts.
A crowd of hundreds convened at Mount Vernon Square in downtown DC, swelling to nearly 1,000 people at its height.
The speakers were gathered for the Freedom Summit, a nine-hour event convened by Steve King, a rightwing Iowa congressman and radio host.
On Sunday afternoon, a group of about 40 Londoners convened in a Pimlico community centre.
He also said that at a time of "burning security crisis not seen since the cold war", most key meetings were now being convened at EU level, rather than within Nato, and it was vital that the UK was there to shape decisions.
He spoke as the morning headliner at the Freedom Summit, a one-day meeting convened by Steve King, the firebrand Republican congressman for Iowa and talk radio host renowned for his strident views on topics such as immigration.
Salmond remains coy about which minister gave him the nod and in what way, but soon afterwards the first minister convened a meeting to plot a devo max option at his grand official residence, the Georgian Bute House on Charlotte Square.
The forum takes place 10 years after 40 African countries, convened by the African Union, signed the Maputo declaration, committing at least 10% of their national budgets to agriculture development.
