61.   He met in Moscow last week with President Bill Clinton and hosted a summit of the Group of Seven countries.

62.   He said the situation should be clearer by the time Ireland, which holds the rotating EU presidency, hosts a summit in Dublin in December.

63.   However Ramos said hosting the summit would allow the Philippines to showcase its economic recovery, attract more foreign investment and forge closer economic links with other countries.

64.   In Beirut, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri also said Wednesday that his country would host the summit as planned.

65.   And Hanoi will host a summit of heads of state and government of Francophone nations in three years.

66.   Buyoya did not indicate which country might host the summit.

67.   Chirac hosted a summit of the seven most industrialised countries in June at which participants agreed on the need to ease the debt burden on third world countries.

68.   Embassy demonstrations in Jakarta started when Indonesia hosted the last APEC summit one year ago.

69.   The Philippines is cash-strapped and hosting the summit was a formidable challenge.

70.   The summit was hosted by Mandela and attended by presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Ketumile Masire of Botswana, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique.