1.   The Pan-Africanist Congress, which withdrew from a preparatory meeting in November, refused to attend CODESA, denouncing it as a government instrument of manipulation.

2.   Preparatory meetings had been held between Foreign Ministers and Defence Ministers.

3.   One UN official said that much of the debate of the preparatory meetings was confrontational.

4.   At issue is a draft document drawn up at a preparatory meeting held in New York in April under U.N. auspices.

5.   In preparatory meetings, Muslims and Jews, Baptists and Mormons, liberal Protestants and Pentecostals worked together, said researcher Thumma.

6.   It took part in preparatory meetings, persuading governments to include more women in their delegations and allow women to help draft governmental documents for the conference.

7.   Japan will submit the revised list to a preparatory meeting in Bonn next month, the report said.

8.   Resentment among developing countries has been expressed in preparatory meetings, with many of these delegates insisting that they have more of a say in running the trade forum.

9.   The conference had been years in the making and the document it was to adopt had been carefully negotiated in a series of preparatory meetings, without U.S. dissent.

10.   U.S. officers have not yet begun the preparatory meeting with officials in the towns and villages where the Americans will deploy, officers said.