71.   But Islamic, democratic and other opposition groups insist that a preparatory meeting be held first to avoid the INC dominating any forum, Jabr said.

72.   Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hong-Koo announced on television that a preparatory meeting had been requested.

73.   Deputy Foreign Minister Sadayuki Hayashi is expected to head the Japanese delegation to the preparatory meeting, which is likely to be held in Tokyo.

74.   European Union mediator Carl Bildt was due to have a preparatory meeting with French President Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister Herve de Charette in Paris on Tuesday.

75.   During the night finance ministers ended a preparatory meeting without reaching agreement on moves towards the planned single European currency.

76.   The US official said preparatory meetings could be held but that no final decision on a summit had been taken.

77.   The venue and date will be officially decided by a preparatory meeting in Moscow next week.

78.   The sessions beginning Monday will be the fourth and final preparatory meetings.

79.   The Singapore conference was the first of a series of preparatory meetings for the Manila summit.

80.   There was persistent debate in summit preparatory meetings on whether to put human rights issues on the informal agenda.