Mr. Bloomberg invited delegates to stick around.
A year later, Iraq invited delegates from Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela to meet in Baghdad, where they established opec.
And as he worked through each item – Libya, Syria, China – he invited delegates to bellow their verdict.
Responding to such criticism, the forum has this year invited delegates from unions and an array of nongovernment organizations.
He writes acerbically about the atmosphere of Camp David: "[Madeleine] Albright once invited delegates to a movie, and delegates were also invited to play a basketball game.
Updated at 2.18pm GMT 2.13pm GMT President Rousseff said "I invites you all to join us" in increasing Brazil's foreign investment, and then adds that she also invites delegates to the upcoming World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
It's hard to remember, for example, the last political conference that invited delegates – in this case, professional artists and members of the public – to bring their own portrait of education secretary Michael Gove to enter an on-the-spot exhibition and painting competition.
Swinging With King Uptown last night, to the strains of a string trio, Roy Innis was extolling the virtues of President Bush at a cocktail party and political forum in the Museum of the City of New York, explaining to reporters that he had invited delegates there to give them "a taste of Harlem".
They also invited delegates to make pledges on cardboard "apples" which they then collected and placed on a large paper tree.
Invited delegates were either experienced researchers who had published clinical trials or protocols of clinical trials of non-pharmacological interventions for common musculoskeletal problems or patients representatives with musculoskeletal problems.
