21.   An international anti-euthanasia conference opens here Friday to fight the Dutch mercy killing policy that ranks as the most permissive in the industrialized world.

22.   An international development conference opened Monday with the host nation, Indonesia, calling on wealthy countries to write off debt owed by poorer countries.

23.   Before the conference opened Wednesday, U.N. officials said they would consider the Troutbeck talks successful if the two agreed to continue the dialogue.

24.   Before the conference opened, Ahmad Fawzi, the U.N. spokesman for Afghanistan, said that the Afghan groups must wrap up the talks in less than a week.

25.   Chemical weapons conference opens.

26.   Conference on AIDS opens with optimism in Vancouver.

27.   Conference opens on greenhouse gas problem.

28.   Economic conference opens with thin ranks.

29.   German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer will greet the four delegations when the conference opens on Tuesday.

30.   IAEA conference opens in Vienna.