Chinese officials and analysts say they are merely convening the talks and providing a forum for the two sides to talk after a six-month diplomatic impasse that led to fears here and around the region that the former Korean War enemies were on a path to a new conflict.
ONE might think that any meeting of the National Coalition Against Legalised Gambling (NCALG) nowadays would be convened merely to sell off the group's meagre assets and go home.
Is the recently convened Ferguson Commission merely an attempt to placate the Brown family and lull the black community into a false sense of "we're working to fix the problems?" Will the Commission's policy recommendations translate into meaningful change on the Ferguson Police Department?
Its delegates walked out of the meeting a few hours after it convened on Saturday, dismissing the Arab League deliberations as an oratorical exercise that would merely result in empty threats to Israel.
On this date the World Health Organisation (WHO) convened an expert consultation in Geneva that formed the basis for a report that defined obesity not merely as a coming social catastrophe, but as an "epidemic".
He convened ninety-three hearings.
A grand jury was convened.
He convened formal conclaves here.
