Although it varies from meeting to meeting, usually there are several hundred government delegates present, plus the IGOs and NGOs.
The conference was attended by government delegates, representatives from business and industry, environmental organizations, research institutions, and media representatives.
The government delegates who have visited the camps said they would recommend closing Woomera in the long term.
First he infuriated almost all the government delegates by expressing his sympathy with the views of many of the anti-WTO demonstrators besieging Seattle.
I'm at a meeting for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, where government delegates are voting on whether to protect endangered species from excessive international trade.
Attendees include government delegates, civil society representatives, scientists, environmentalists, activists and members of communities most vulnerable to the consequences of the changes in nature.
Constitutional protections and hard-fought democratic transparency do not carry over when the government delegates to, or even devolves into, the private sector.
Government delegates adopted the 86-page draft as the basis for negotiations on the deal due to be agreed later this year.
About 4,500 people are expected to attend the five-day conference, including 2,000 government delegates, 700 journalists and representatives of 600 nongovernmental organizations.
Pro-government delegates at the talks denounced Wefaq as agents of Iran plotting to bring Bahrain under foreign control.But even as the dialogue flounders there are at least some grounds for optimism.
More than 3,000 non-government delegates are also taking part, all of them concerned about children and nearly half of them from the developing world, where children face the greatest challenges to survival, health, education and well-being.
