A group of 33 countries staged a summit meeting in Brazil in December, pledging internal cooperation and welcoming Cuba after having failed to invite U.S. representatives.
All this for a job?'" When the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, staged a summit in Rome on 26 April to press for the partial reinstatement of national border controls in Europe in the event of undefined "exceptional circumstances", they had people like Munadi in mind.
Okinawa clearly was full of action, but Thomas S. Foley, the United States ambassador to Japan, staged a summit-related event Friday on a tinier island nearby.
And, most recently, there were the overtures by Kim Jong Il -- first to halt missile testing and, then earlier this month, to stage a summit meeting with his South Korean counterpart, Kim Dae Jung -- that sent American officials reaching for the thesaurus.
He had staged a grand summit to launch a Union for the Mediterranean, with a huge turnout, plenty of warm words and no big quarrels.
See articleMed repPresident Nicolas Sarkozy staged a huge summit in Paris to mark the establishment of a new Union for the Mediterranean.
The stark warning from the former Polish prime minister, who presides over the EU summit on Thursday and who has been charged with drafting the settlement rewriting the terms of Britain's EU membership, came as east European leaders staged a mini-summit in Prague to hammer out a common position on the proposed British deal.
They howled when the British, German and French leaders staged a three-way summit in Berlin in February.
(A few weeks ago Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, whose shows, filmed in Los Angeles, are also without their regular writers because of the strike, staged a late-night summit of sorts on Mr. Kimmel's show on ABC).
In 2009 when a well known African American Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr, was arrested while trying to get into his own home, Obama made his views known in a clumsy intervention that ended in him staging a "beer summit" with Gates and the arresting officer.
European leaders are to stage an emergency summit next week to wrestle with the EU's worst humanitarian crisis, a refugee emergency that has also pitched the union into one of its most bitter political conflicts.
