Sentence examples for open a summit from inspiring English sources

Thought to have expansive reserves of oil and natural gas as well as ample fishing stocks, the South China Sea is emerging as a crucial issue as the Association of Southeast Asian nations prepares to open a summit meeting on Tuesday.

East African leaders opened a summit meeting in Khartoum by urging united action against terrorists.

Opening a summit meeting that the Congolese leader Laurent Kabila was to have attended, heads of state from across Africa spent a moment today mourning Mr. Kabila -- even as his aides back in Congo were continuing to insist that he was not dead.

The letter, received in Washington yesterday, was a repetition of Mr. Khrushchev's proposal that the 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva open March 14 as a summit meeting.

Trade and investment within the CIS are becoming stagnant at best.Last week the CIS came close to open revolt at a summit in Chisinau, in Moldova, when other leaders denounced Russia for dominating the organisation and manipulating it to Russian ends.

Britain's Prince Charles formally opened a Commonwealth summit in Colombo whose build-up has been dogged by a dispute over rights abuses at the end of Sri Lanka's ethnic war.

Pope Francis opened a key summit of family issues on Sunday, hours after a high-ranking official challenged the Vatican's authority and teaching by coming out as gay.

The Queen has opened a Commonwealth summit in the Australian city of Perth.

On Feb. 21 the Security Council is to open a two-day summit meeting on Congo with government leaders from the region.

(Earlier this month, Kim fired a rocket just as Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, was opening an annual summit of developing countries in the Chinese city of Xiamen).

Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League and a former foreign minister in Egypt, opened an economic summit meeting in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik with a sobering assessment not just of circumstances in the tumultuous North African nation of Tunisia, but across a region that stretches from Morocco through the Persian Gulf.