1.   But the most a ministerial conference can produce are conditions for a more authoritative encounter.

2.   The APEC members said they want to conclude such a treaty by the time of the WTO ministerial conference in Singapore next month.

3.   The four-day ministerial conference, where President Clinton is scheduled to speak Wednesday, runs through Friday.

4.   The official recounted a ministerial conference he had attended in Kuwait to discuss the suppression of corruption.

5.   The WTO ministerial conference next month will be a major opportunity to further define joint responsibility for a multilateral trading system.

6.   A ministerial conference in May is likely to set priorities for new liberalization agreements and rules governing trade in the next century.

7.   But he expressed the hope that an OPEC ministerial conference in June would be able to solve the problem.

8.   Gong is attending a ministerial conference in Phuket, Thailand.

9.   Government representatives met recently in Bangkok to prepare a plan to be adopted at a ministerial conference on infrastructure, scheduled for next year in New Delhi.

10.   He said only that a decision would be made at the ministerial conference.