11.   The city sent five delegates to the PASO meetings.

12.   The Northern Alliance, however urgently Western nations have been asking them to act, have still not decided on which delegates they should send to the diplomatic discussions.

13.   The Vatican, which sent two delegates to the conference as observers, did not respond to a Bloomberg News request for an interview.

14.   There is talk of a series of meetings around the world, to which various factions would send delegates.

15.   They have sent delegates to both presidential conventions this year, and affluent ones are contributing to political parties and candidates.

16.   Young agreed that the vote in Philadelphia was essentially a straw poll, but the delegates were sent there by rank-and-file members, he said.

17.   As a commonwealth, Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens who may enlist in the U.S. armed forces and send delegates to political conventions.

18.   Each district sends three delegates to the Republican National Convention.

19.   Each state sends two delegates to the Platform Committee, whose first decisions are made by subcommittees and then forwarded to the full committee.

20.   France, the United States and Britain have also sent delegates.