61.   A preparatory meeting ahead of a Liberian national reconciliation conference will be held this week in the Nigerian capital Abuja, an official statement said Tuesday.

62.   A preparatory meeting of IGAD experts was concluding on Sunday.

63.   A final preparatory meeting Sunday hammered out the agreements on procedure.

64.   A preparatory meeting to have been held in Kara Tuesday and Wednesday was also cancelled, the ministry said.

65.   A series of preparatory meetings ahead of the summit will begin in July this year.

66.   Alatas blamed Gama for the impasse, saying that Portuguese officials had repeatedly postponed or cancelled preparatory meetings.

67.   Alatas said that the preparatory meeting would also draft the fourth interim agreement.

68.   Albania had planned to hold a seminar Saturday afternoon which was supposed to one of the high points of these preparatory meetings.

69.   Arafat chaired a preparatory meeting of his self-rule government on Monday dedicated to studying ways to push the stalled peace process forward.

70.   Before the convention, the party will hold a preparatory meeting in December when the new party platform will be unveiled, the reports said.