11.   But Albright advanced a challenge that would have been unnecessary and unthinkable at the last APEC summit a year ago in Manila, Philippines.

12.   Clinton missed the last summit in Osaka, Japan, in November last year because of the current budget standoff in Washington D.C.

13.   Commonwealth leaders expelled Nigeria during their last summit in New Zealand which coincided with the execution by the military government of nine civil rights activists.

14.   Egypt, which hosted the last Arab summit in June, says the time is not suitable.

15.   He said he convened the last summit even though he worried that it would be like going to the dentist without Novocain.

16.   In the year since the last economic summit, the landscape confronting world leaders has been radically transformed.

17.   It is very likely that Genoa will be the last major summit to take place in Europe.

18.   Kenya was admitted as a new member during the last summit in Kuala Lumpur in November last year.

19.   Leaders said the Seoul summit put the partnership back on track after two years of drift since the last summit.

20.   Major said EU nations failed to follow through on promises of friendly cooperation at the last EU summit in March.