31. The queen will open the summit on Saturday. 32. The statement appeared to have been drafted during a dinner hosted by Chretien opening the summit. 33. They opened their summit Sunday with two hours of closed-door talks with the West Indies Cricket Board, which supervises the regional club. 34. There were also scattered scuffles between Basque nationalists and police just outside the casino in Biarritz where EU leaders opened their summit. 35. Gore, for his part, opened the summit saying free trade was compatible with sustainable development and saying that the private sector was the key to success. 36. Clinton opened the summit Friday urging leaders gathered here to make democracy and free trade the cornerstones of a new, even-handed inter-American partnership. 37. Earlier Pope John Paul II opened the summit with a call for a change in minds to get people to work together against hunger. 38. EU-summit BARCELONA, Spain - European Union leaders under pressure to enact user-friendly economic reform and give the EU more global clout opened a summit. 39. The summit was opened by Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore. 40. The summit was opened in the Ivory Coast capital by President Henri Konan Bedie. |