His aides indicated that the decisions would be made after the economic summit talks.

A date and place for the summit talks have not been announced.

There was more to the summit talks than initially appeared.

That official said the summit talks remain on schedule.

As for economic aid to Russia, a central issue at past summit talks, there will be no new money offered this time.

Other non-G8 leaders were invited to attend and participate in the summit talks.

The summit talks in Washington had to settle for second place.

As for the progress of the summit talks, the President insisted only that they "were on the right track".

But some other Western officials said the principles went further than they had expected at the start of the summit talks.

Whatever is accomplished here will likely be achieved on the margin of the summit talks.