East African leaders opened a summit meeting in Khartoum by urging united action against terrorists.
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.
(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).
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.
You've probably seen me hundreds of times: standing patiently in the background of some important economic summit, opening a car door under a hail of paparazzi flashes, sneaking the main character of a 90s movie into some VIP room so they can chase their unrequited love.
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.
On Feb. 21 the Security Council is to open a two-day summit meeting on Congo with government leaders from the region.
Some have suggested it was a debacle before it even started, after the Saudi King pulled out, but President Barack Obama betrayed no misgivings as he opened a two-day summit with six Gulf allies.
