21.   The UN-sponsored conference ended in Vienna Friday after three weeks of wrangling.

22.   The WTO real-time surveillance project was dismantled once the conference ended, Duchin said, because there was no money to continue it.

23.   The two-day conference ended today.

24.   When the Rome conference ended, the Security Council was left with the power to stall proceedings but not prevent them.

25.   A regional conference ended here Tuesday with a call for Middle Eastern states to sign a treaty to ban land mines.

26.   A U.N. conference on weapons ended last week without delegates agreeing on measures to restrict land mines.

27.   A vote on the Makah request, opposed by conservationists and even some members of the Makah tribe, will take place before the conference ends on Friday.

28.   A three day trade conference ended Saturday with upbeat pronouncements of significant progress toward a single Caribbean market and economy.

29.   An international conference on land mines ended Sunday with a call for a complete ban on the manufacture and use of the weapons and a boycott of their makers.

30.   An international conference could end the impasse, Chirac said.