He spoke to CNN's Ivan Watson on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday.
The ministerial meeting of 1982 failed and the later Uruguay round of talks nearly collapsed, before being successfully concluded.
We highlighted continued efforts by the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC) to combat trafficking in persons (TIP).
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
It will have a good opportunity to do so at the World Trade Organization's inaugural ministerial meeting in Singapore next month.
Instead, the group will probably put off making a decision until a ministerial meeting in Vienna on 21 June, Opec delegates said.
That was never more evident than during the past week, when the association held its annual Ministerial Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei's capital.
But Nato wants to have something special to announce by the time of the next ministerial meeting of the Joint Permanent Council in Brussels next month.
If no consensus emerges soon, Mr Ruggiero may be asked to stay on to prepare the agenda for the next big ministerial meeting in America in late 1999.
President Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him, should call for a ministerial meeting involving all COCOM nations to review the current state and future direction of Western technology security policy.
The American secretary of state, Colin Powell, had already been hard at work in Los Cabos, at the ministerial meeting which preceded the summit, lobbying APEC members for their backing.
It would have been the first full-fledged ministerial meeting between the two governments under their new leaders, Mr. Abe and President Park Geun-hye, who took power in December and February, respectively.
We were also pleased to note the admission of Myanmar as sixth member of the LMI at the 5th Lower Mekong Initiative Ministerial Meeting on 13 July 2012 in Phnom Penh.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to several ministers and agencies about the severe weather during a ministerial meeting at the Cabinet Office and said the government was doing it all it could.
The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators - the US, Russia, the EU and the UN - has also condemned the Israeli housing announcement and said it would review the situation at its ministerial meeting scheduled for 19 March in Moscow.
At the ministerial meeting in May it is expected to seek the right to opt out of any clauses that it finds unacceptable, such as the ones imposing an advertising ban and a minimum size for health warnings on cigarette packs.
Ahead of this week's ministerial meeting, the federal government announced changes it wanted made to the Boundary Waters Treaty in order to prevent bulk water exports, and referred the Lake Superior case to the International Joint Commission, which deals with boundary waters.
This Inter-Ministerial Meeting will embrace a workshop for experts from the English-speaking Caribbean region in order enable participants exchange their views and acquire skills to identify projects to relevant sectors, products and services by promoting the conservation of biological diversity and natural resources.
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In her opening statement, Ambassador Maria Francesca Spatolisano from the European Union underlined the importance of this conference as a follow up to the Cairo declaration adopted at the Second European Union-League of Arab States Foreign Affairs Ministerial meeting in Egypt in November.
In his opening remarks, the Director-General recalled that from the origins in a ministerial meeting at UNESCO in 2002, the Heads of State level Summit Forums, co convened by UNESCO in Ohrid (2003), Tirana (2004), Varna (2005), Opatija (2006), Bucharest and Sibiu (2007), and Athens (2008) have been significant for the entire region.
Mr. DEMETRIOS PAPADEMETRIOU (Migration Policy Institute): It is amazing to go to a place - I was at a ministerial meeting just last Friday in Copenhagen - and it was simply amazing to hear the Danes and the Dutch and the Germans and all that in the same conversation as we would have, or have had, in the United States in the past year or so.
NGOs are expected to bring specific expertise on literacy programmes to the ninth E-9 Ministerial Review Meeting in New Delhi (9-10 November).
While in New York (USA) to participate in the Annual Ministerial Review meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Irina Bokova underscored the importance of gender equality for the achievement of all internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and particularly those related to education.
Secretary Geithner will be in France for a ministerial-level meeting of the G7 -- G8, rather, on this weekend, on Friday.
Israeli officials have told the BBC that they requested a month-long postponement of a ministerial-level meeting in May which discusses the EU-Israeli Association agreement regulating bilateral ties.
McCARTHY: Well, no date's set, other than something vague next year at a meeting at a ministerial level.
At a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in London this week, Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth secretary-general, said that if the election were to be held in June, international observers would have to arrive at once.
The Science Policy Ministerial Meetings of South East Europe, a ministerial round table and an expert meeting, are jointly organized by the UNESCO Venice Office and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 22-23 November 2012 in order to discuss science priorities and potential regional strategies to strengthen Research, Technology and Innovation in SEE.
The council meeting also sent out a ministerial delegation to express condolences to the families of the bereaved.
He has been dubbed "Jones the Jag" by Labour for making the 100m journey by his ministerial vehicle to attend Tuesday's cabinet meeting at No 10.
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