1.   The meeting groups South and North Korea, the United States and China.

2.   The meeting will group European and Middle East nations to discuss regional cooperation.

3.   Hisham Yussef said the meeting would group members of a follow-up committee for the initiative, which was endorsed in March at an Arab summit in Beirut.

4.   The quadrilateral meeting groups Canada, Japan, the United States and the European Union.

5.   The meeting grouped representatives of the Chadian government, legal political parties, trade unions, various associations and armed opposition groups plus mediators and international observers.

6.   The meeting will group Turkish Foreign Minister Erdal Inonu and his Bosnian and Croatian counterparts Irfan Ljubijankic and Mate Granic.

7.   The OIC meeting groups Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

8.   The meeting will group trade representatives from Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States to discuss international trade issues.