Annan said further discussions would take place before he decided whether to send such a team, but he expressed doubts that direct elections could be held in time for a planned handover to an interim Iraqi government this (northern hemisphere) summer.
Not since Mexico city in 1968 have they been held in one, unless you count Seoul in 1988, the last time the summer games were held in Asia.
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The conference is being held in the United States for the first time since 1990, when it was held in San Francisco.
The International AIDS Conference, now in its 17th year, is being held for the first time in a Latin American country.
There were ironic cheers for the Spaniard when, in game six, he held serve for the first time in the match, but Murray saw off the set with ease to extend his advantage to two sets.
In fact, this may have been one of the best tastings I've held in a very long time.
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The upper house, or Shura Council, has been granted temporary legislative powers, until elections for the lower house of parliament are held in two months' time.
Ms Shah, who is due to give birth in a month's time, was originally held in custody with her daughter, aged four, and her five-year-old son.
For example, while Lyndon Johnson held 135 solitary press conferences during his time in office, Ronald Reagan held only 46.
Watson was steeped in music as a child, from the time his mother held him in her arms at the Mount Paton Church and he listened to the harmony and shape-note singing of such songs as "The Lone Pilgrim" and "There is a Fountain, " according to a 1998 article in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by Dan Miller.
Since being arrested at her home in Cupertino, CA in December 2010, she was denied bail and held in maximum security facilities for the majority of her time in prison.
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The ceremony, which was held in Scotland for the first time, also honoured Billy Bragg and Roy Harper with lifetime achievement awards.
There the best players from Europe and the US will battle it out when golf's most prestigious team competition is held in Wales for the first time.
Recently, similar trainings were held for the 2nd time in Gabon (23-27 July) and in Ghana (12-16 November), and for the 1st time, in Chad (1-3 August) and in Malawi (22-24 November).
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Domestic issues aside, Toure is looking ahead to 2010, when the World Cup will be held in Africa for the first time in its history -- a tournament in which the powerful midfielder has high hopes for his national side, Ivory Coast.
In regional and municipal elections held at the same time as the European ones, the parties in his alliance won a more respectable 34%.
Last year, the prize was held in at the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead - the first time the ceremony was held outside a Tate venue.
This is special in its own right, as it is the first time the conference has been held in America in 19 years.
People at the association, Turkey's leading human-rights body, say the fall was due in part to a new law cutting the length of time a suspect may be held in custody without charge from a week to four days.
Buffalo's Thomas Vanek leads the NHL in scoring with 19 points but he was held off the score sheet for the first time in nine games.
CEOs of banks and businesses, too, are held in lower esteem than at any time since the 1970s.
The vote concluded a five-and-a-half-hour debate, held on backbench business time, in a packed House of Commons chamber, on 24 October 2011.
Being held in Great Britain for the first time, the conference will welcome delegates concerned with the Global Geoparks agenda from all over the world.
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Two eggs went missing when the Big Egg Hunt was held for the first time, in London, last year, but all were returned.
He will serve his sentence at Oslo's high-security Ila Prison, where he has been held in isolation for most of the time since his arrest.
Our legal system is stuck in a time warp where we are still held responsible for having consented to matters disclosed in fine print contracts and prospectuses we could not possibly have read or understood.
Johnston's burst down the left flank in the 49th minute moved Saracens into the lead for the first time in the match and they held onto it to the final whistle.
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