31. Cairo hosted the last Arab summit which had threatened to freeze normalisation with Israel unless it softened its tough stance on the peace process. 32. Dubbed the last post-Cold War summit, the Bush-Putin meeting in Moscow set the stage for a historic new partnership between Russia and NATO. 33. Embassy demonstrations in Jakarta started when Indonesia hosted the last APEC summit one year ago. 34. The military option was first mooted during the last OAU summit in late June when the crisis in Burundi was a top agenda item. 35. The Philippines hosted the last summit of APEC leaders last November. 36. This happened at the last OSCE summit in Budapest, when the meeting collapsed after failing to agree on Bosnia. 37. Klaus was therefore pleased when the last EU summit held in Madrid last month agreed that membership negotiations would be carried out with candidate countries on an individual basis. 38. On the economic front, the leaders were to seek to push forward a number of groundbreaking decisions adopted at their last summit held in Muscat in December. 39. Russia failed to get such a measure adopted at the last CIS summit in February. 40. Russia failed to get such a measure adopted at the last CIS summit in the Kazakh capital Almaty in February. |