21.   The conference comes as left-leaning governments look to the free market to provide costly social services.

22.   The Jakarta conference comes as Indonesia clearly lags behind the progress being made by its neighbors to recover from the economic slump.

23.   He said the UN was counting on the Naples conference to come up with new proposals to beat crime.

24.   The two-day conference comes at a time when internal strife in several ECO countries has devastated economies and brought about political chaos.

25.   It is not known if this conference will come before or after a conference in Paris at which the peace agreement will be formally signed in December.

26.   The conference will come the day after Yeltsin is to address a joint session of parliament.

27.   The conference came amid brighter prospects for peace between Israel and Syria.

28.   The conference comes amid an upsurge of bloody clan bloodletting in the Somali capital which have left hundreds dead and many others wounded in the past few months.

29.   The conference comes at a crucial time for the Dayton accords, for the success of the military side risks being undermined by severe problems implementing civilian aspects.

30.   The conference comes two months after a communist party plenum devoted to the strengthening of ideology did not touch on economic issues, unlike the previous year.