He describes the farcical but tragic Geneva conference later that year that divided Vietnam.
"We must make clear that if the regime does not negotiate seriously at the Geneva conference, no option is off the table, " he added.
Members of the National Coalition are meeting in Istanbul to elect a new leader to replace Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib and formulate its positions before the Geneva conference.
"The Geneva conference held in June this year includes elements that are sufficient for a plan to end the crisis in the next few coming months, " he said.
Mr. McCain criticized the administration's reliance on the Geneva conference as "optimistic to the point of fantasy, " adding that each time the U.S. has upped its assistance to rebels, Iran and Russia have responded with new aid to Mr. Assad.
Keith Clements, secretary of the Geneva-based Conference of European Churches, which groups over 100 Protestant and Orthodox religious groups, says his members must gear up for a sometimes difficult dialogue with Muslims of all stripes, from moderates to militants.
During the Geneva motor show in March Mays summoned designers to a hotel conference room overlooking Lake Geneva.
"The onus is on the government of Syria to prove that their words will be matched by their deeds this time, " Ban said at a news conference in Geneva.
Former Arsenal and France captain Patrick Vieira was also at the U.N. conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and he told FIFA's official website the fight was moving in the right direction.
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But prospects for launching talks at an international conference in Geneva began fading after the main Western-backed opposition group said it wouldn't attend as long as Hezbollah fights in Syria and the situation in Qusair remains dire.
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
"Today we are dealing with a weak and fragmented opposition that we must work with to go to Geneva" for the peace conference.
In 1974 a conference was convened in Geneva to rewrite the humanitarian law of war.
's Durban Review conference this April in Geneva (though his administration has left the door open for further haggling).
Her comments were included in an online United Nations report on this month's Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Durban II conference last year in Geneva was supposed to reinvigorate the political war that was launched in 2001.
In 1984, he personally introduced at the Conference on Disarmament In Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion.
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The US, Israel, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and New Zealand had all boycotted the conference being held in Geneva, in protest at Mr Ahmadinejad's appearance.
In 1984, he personally introduced at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion and submitted despite the fact that extensive work on its verification aspects remained to be done.
"Further spread is considered inevitable, " Chan said at a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Will we be living by the values implied in the Obama administration's decision to "engage" in preparations for the United Nations Durban II conference scheduled this April in Geneva.
The five-day Geneva talks - officially called the Durban Review Conference - are meant to review progress in fighting racism since a 2001 forum in Durban, South Africa.
The 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report was launched at the International Conference on Education, taking place in Geneva from 25 to 28 November.
The Geneva communique was drawn up in June during a conference in Switzerland that brought together representatives from world powers that had been at odds over the Syrian conflict.
The EU has pledged to prioritize helping find a political solution to the crisis, so all thoughts should now turn to making the U.S.-Russia brokered peace conference, scheduled for mid-June, in Geneva, a success.
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But re-engaging with the council will boost America's image in many quarters regardless of what it decides to do about a related human-rights forum: the so-called Durban II conference on racism, due to take place in Geneva in late April.
The Mission also recommended that the Assembly ask the Swiss Government to convene a conference of the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and ensure its respect in accordance with its article 1.
Diplomats meet in Geneva next week to try to salvage plans for a June peace conference.
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