1.   Uzbek President Islam Karimov chaired the session.

2.   Bush meanwhile chaired a session of the National Security Council devoted to the proposals in the report of the international commission, headed by former Senator George Mitchell.

3.   China will chair the session intended to craft a united response to the India-Pakistan crisis.

4.   De Chastelain will chair the session that will discuss relations between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

5.   Chubais, who chaired the session in his place, announced that the prime minister went on a sudden two-day vacation.

6.   Deputy House Speaker Somsak Thepsuthin, chairing the session, said a norm should be established whereby present ministers must answer interpellation motions aimed at them.

7.   Four women lawmakers stormed out of a parliamentary session on violence against women Wednesday because the session was chaired by a lawmaker accused of beating his wife.

8.   He is to chair a session of the powerful Defense Council on Tuesday and two meetings with former Soviet republics on Thursday.

9.   His words were drowned in whistles and jeers and party leaders chairing the session cut him off.

10.   In the past ten days he has chaired three sessions of the Iraqi Cabinet, all shown on Iraqi television.