31.   It later said the conference will go ahead.

32.   Reynolds said all indications were that the conference would go ahead as planned.

33.   The Beijing conference went a step further, saying women have the right to control their own sexuality free of coercion.

34.   The conference went on as scheduled, said the organizer, speaking on condition of anonymity.

35.   The Social Democrats said the EU conference should go beyond rhetoric and agree on job creation goals.

36.   When the conference went ahead, China shut down the Beijing office of a German research foundation that co-sponsored it.

37.   Indonesia had threatened retaliation against the Philippines for allowing the conference to go ahead.

38.   International civilian officials are trying to secure the release of all war prisoners so a major donors conference can go ahead next weekend, officials said here Thursday.

39.   But Mubarak later said the conference would go ahead as scheduled.

40.   World Bank officials in Sarajevo said the bank was still acting on the premise that the conference would go ahead.