Just a few days before, my translator and I were smoking cigarettes and enjoying some hot tea, waiting with a few sheiks for our weekly situation meeting to begin.
As we described the meeting in the Situation Room a few nights ago, that the President believes our response to this is important for who we are as a country, for who we are as a good neighbor, and for the American citizens that are there, as well as Haitians that have had to live through such devastation.
Iraq has complained that Arab foreign ministers delayed a meeting to discuss the situation at the behest of such good American allies as Saudi Arabia.
This is something, by the way -- going back to my involvement -- two or three days after this happened, we had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.
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Mr. Ganzouri convened an emergency cabinet meeting Friday to discuss the situation, according to MENA, the state news agency.
Staff were informed at a meeting on Thursday of the situation, which city business leaders said was "bad news".
There is yet another EU official meeting Monday to address the situation in Greece and other financially troubled EU countries.
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The UK's National Security Council is meeting later to discuss the situation.
The United Nations Security Council held a four-hour emergency meeting early Sunday on the situation, ending with a call for an immediate halt to violence.
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Mr. Secretary General, on behalf of us all, thank you for convening this meeting to address the urgent situation in Sudan that demands the attention of the world.
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An administration official said the president and Vice President Joe Biden convened a meeting in the White House Situation Room with his top national-security officials, to follow up on briefings he had received through the night.
We believe that we are in a situation where supply is not meeting demand, and there are a variety of reasons for that, including disruption caused by the situation in Libya, which has removed 1.5 million barrels a day from the market.
Secretary Clinton and I just concluded a meeting that focused on the ongoing situation in Libya.
As you might expect, a significant portion of that meeting was devoted to discussing the situation in Libya.
The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) has called an emergency meeting for Thursday to discuss the situation in Venezuela.
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Egypt's prime minister is to chair a cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation, the Mena news agency said.
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Most of the meeting focused on "the security situation in Tripoli and the NTC's progress in helping life in Tripoli return to normal".
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Oh his arrival back in Nigeria, Mr Jonathan is set to head a meeting reviewing Nigeria's security situation with the country's military and police chiefs.
Mr Cameron, updating MPs on the situation after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency response committee, Cobra, expressed "disgust and condemnation" at the "brutal and savage attack".
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But I think it was characterized and I think I characterized it this way last Thursday after the meeting that was had in the Situation Room, that progress is steady but slow.
So like the other meetings, there wasn't one magic sentence or one magic phrase, but again a fairly comprehensive meeting to go through the remaining situation that hadn't been covered and needed to be covered more in depth in Afghanistan.
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.
He said workers would stay away from the site until Monday, when a further meeting will be held to discuss the situation.
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Its latest statements are that it will continue to wait and see, will discuss the situation again at its FOMC meeting next week, but is fairly limited in what it can do anyway.
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And the President has, on a number of occasions prior to the meeting today, been briefed on the situation, but again, believe that this is something that the Europeans can and should resolve on their own.
The meeting began with a briefing on the situation in Pakistan from Ambassador Patterson, including a discussion of the progress made in building a strong partnership with the Pakistani government and people on behalf of our mutual interests.
The meeting began with an update on the situation in Afghanistan where they discussed the success of the recent Kabul Conference, including the absence of significant security disruptions, and the steps that were announced to move forward on strengthening governance and pursuing reintegration.
Fortunately, she called our helpline and our planner further discussed the situation, and she canceled the meeting.
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The Obama team quickly put together a meeting at the White House to get the situation under control.
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