Some 1,000 governmental officials worldwide are attending the two-week conference, which will end on Friday.

The bluntness of his remarks surprised some other delegates to the two-week conference.

Belluschi became involved with the Lincoln Center project in October 1956, when he participated in a two-week conference devoted to discussing the planning of the center.

Representatives of about 150 governments are attending the two-week conference.

The final text was the result of drafting, consultation, and negotiation, beginning in 1989 and culminating at the two-week conference.

A resolution promoted by the Latin American bloc to censure the three countries provoked the hottest and longest debate of the two-week conference.

The chief political battle at the two-week conference will be over devising new foreign aid guidelines, and the fight will be over fractions of a percentage point.

I was going to attend a two-week conference, staying as a paying guest in a private home, no phone in the room.

The two-week conference is attended by some 1000 government representatives, international experts, non-governmental organizations, and human rights activists.

After pre-conference dramaturgical meetings, which are held from four to four weeks before the beginning of the two-week conference, actors are brought in.