Sentence examples for preparatory conference from inspiring English sources

In April the second preparatory conference of the parties to the UN-backed Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons convened in Geneva.

Business leaders from across the world, meeting in Paris for a preparatory conference before the UN convenes later this year, congratulated the French president and called for a strong international agreement on the climate.

The preparatory conference for the summit, held in Bali last month, was marred by disputes between developed nations and poorer states and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), despite efforts by British politicians to broker compromises on key issues.

Shamshad Ahmad, a Pakistani diplomat who served a co-chairman of the preparatory conference, said today that he considered it a significant achievement that rich and poor nations and leading lending agencies had agreed on important principles for fighting poverty.

On Thursday it was announced that France would attempt to restart the moribund Middle East peace process at a preparatory conference of foreign ministers in Paris at the end of May.

On the South Sudan side, Mr. Achuil, my counterpart, facilitated the Malual Dinka preparatory conference a week earlier in the same month.

In September, the United Nations will convene a special General Assembly session on children, after a year of preparatory conferences.

"We felt comfortable throughout the preparatory conferences that the U.S. was trying to get some agreed language which would not isolate us.

Yet, in Mr. Sane's view, six preparatory conferences have not produced "one new idea". So this week, he sounded the alarm by sending an open letter to heads of state warning them that universal human rights could be undermined in Vienna.

The preparatory conferences and side events are important from the perspective of sharing experiences and increasing opportunities for informal dialogue among the participants, which can feed into the main events of the conference.

He said agreement was possible because of the preparatory conferences which brought together the Parliament, Governments, the Council of Ministers and the "Assisses" (Assembly of all the Parliaments of the Community).