51.   But Vienna conference organizers said reaching agreement through the Conference on Disarmament could take years.

52.   Conference organizer Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour said suicide attacks and the uprising were the only ways Palestinians can liberate themselves from Israeli occupation.

53.   Conference organizers admit these aspects have generally been ignored in recent decades as the industry thrived on a quick-buck mentality.

54.   Conference organizers omitted the Dalai Lama, leader of Tibetan Buddhists, from the invitation list for fear of offending China.

55.   Conference organizers raised the Chinese and U.N. flags Monday morning outside the hall where the U.N.-sponsored meetings will take place.

56.   Conference organizers said every country in the Western Hemisphere was expected to sign the treaty except the United States and Cuba.

57.   Conference organizers said party members were welcome to listen, but they had not invited Sinn Fein figures to speak to ensure that Protestant politicians would participate.

58.   Conference organizers said the increasing shift in priorities of creditor banks such as the ADB and the World Bank toward environmental programs is encouraging.

59.   Conference organizers said the meeting took place in a hotel just outside Valletta, the walled capital city of this small Mediterranean island nations south of Sicily.

60.   Conference organizers say the first anti-euthanasia conclave in the Netherlands aims to mobilize international pro-life groups against the growing acceptance of euthanasia here and its spread abroad.