Keen to point this out, Gabon's exhibition stand at the Indaba had a large poster with "a safe and friendly country" emblazoned across it.

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The exhibition will stand till 26 November 2010.

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Their stand in the conference exhibition hall has closed.

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It is part of The Solo Years - an exhibition covering the time when the Beatles did not all stand together after their 1970 split.

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