Final details of the agreement were worked out during lengthy four-day meetings this week in Manhattan.

Representatives of about 40 countries are at the four-day meeting at this Pacific resort.

This four-day meeting, which ended today, was consumed with the health care issue.

During the four-day meeting, several cutting-edge educational programs and scientific sessions are held.

The experts held a four-day meeting here to assess Beijing's efforts at change.

In particular, it has grown from a two-day meeting to a four-day meeting.

The emphasis on prevention was the impetus behind a four-day meeting in Atlanta, which began Sunday.

Convention officials estimated that about 20 percent, or close to 6,500, of the 32,000 people expected at the four-day meeting failed to show.

Swofford insisted today that expansion would not necessarily be a focus of the four-day meetings.

The four-day meeting, which ended today, was sponsored by the department.