So it's a full plate at the summit -- from Afghanistan to NATO-Russia to NATO's future.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with NATO Secretary General
They were hoping to find evidence the climbers had reached the summit - but they saw nothing.
And at this summit -- the Secretary General and I have been discussing the agenda for the summit.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with NATO Secretary General
The assault on Mount Dow's summit -- yes, it's a summit or close to one -- was instructive.
They will now be taken at another summit - not later than Wednesday next week, according to the French.
In March 2011, Shanghai is hosting the 4th Annual Ultra-High-rise Building Summit -- which extols the merits of high-rise construction.
Mrs Merkel - seen as the main powerbroker in the summit - has already acknowledged that the talks will be "very difficult".
Obama's decision to change U.S. policy toward Cuba may blunt some of the criticism he'll face at the summit -- but certainly not all.
In the meantime - despite the claims made for the last summit - the EU's northern countries are tiring of supporting the weaker countries of the south.
Still, there is an extensive security presence in the walled colonial city of Cartagena for the summit -- including more than 7, 600 police officers and thousands more troops.
The taxation issue is on the agenda of the latest EU summit - which will also discuss energy policy - at the request of the UK, France and Germany.
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The decision to meet followed a hectic round of consultations between Verhofstadt -- currently in the EU presidency and therefore chairing the summit -- and the fourteen other EU governments.
But - having spoken to key EU figures himself ahead of the summit - he had not "gameplanned" a scenario where the UK would be left in a minority of one.
The summit took place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 - 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit - and was organised by the UN to focus attention on sustainable development.
According to Techcrunch, a technology blog, he was a conspicuously frequent visitor to a facility at Davos, a plutocratic Swiss shindig, where summit-goers could answer questions posed by YouTube users.
Last week, ASEAN firmly backed the inclusion of both India and Pakistan in next year's Asia-Europe Summit - much to the irritation of Australia and New Zealand, which have not been invited.
But he said the possibility of changes to the European Union's treaty had been discussed at the summit - and that could provide an opportunity for Britain to reclaim powers from Brussels.
Heads of state and government gathering for the summit - or European Council to give it its formal name - have been shown what David Cameron called "a great glossy brochure" about it.
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Even so, Herman Van Rompuy - the official who will chair the summit - has said that "for the first time ever - there will be a real-terms cut compared to the current budget".
Talbott's preeminent role in the summit -- and, indeed, in shaping U.S.-Russian relations for most of the past eight years -- was underscored by his inclusion in the two leaders' intimate dinner Saturday night.
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Here's hoping that the affiliated Tech Policy Summit--with some participants' eyes cast nervously toward Washington--helps ensure policymakers don't devour the technology sector's promise with ill-conceived intervention (your Wayne will be a panelist there).
It highlights the deliverables coming out of this summit -- not just the free trade agreement, but all the other work that has been done, such as the increase in the length of visitor visas.
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The Asia-Pacific economic conference, as well as the East Asia summit -- these have to do with, very much, our capacity to trade, to increase our exports, to grow the economy here and create jobs.
Mr Barroso told the European Parliament that the European Court of Justice would be the arbiter of the fiscal rules agreed at the summit - a proposition that UK Chancellor George Osborne appeared to reject earlier.
That's followed by a statement by the prime minister reporting back on the European heads of government summit - and following last week's emergency Commons debate, his words will be closely scrutinised by his own backbenchers.
Clinton "supposed" something useful might come of former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's efforts, but once the terms of Milosevic's summit-eve offer to contemplate some international peacekeeping force emerged, they were no more acceptable than his previous overtures.
You have brought together folks from all across Chicago to do great things for this city, like build Millennium Park, host the NATO Summit -- quite well, by the way -- make the lakefront the cultural jewel of the Midwest.
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It will be the first time that the summit - which brings together the leaders of the US, UK, Canada, Russia, Germany, Italy, France and Japan - has been held in the UK since leaders met at Gleneagles in Scotland in 2005.
The Germans are already warning not to expect anything very dramatic or comprehensive from this weekend's EU summit - in which case the G20 will be staring failure in the face, a prospect that will infuriate President Obama as well as our own PM.
He will talk about the need, at this summit, for nation's around the world, including some in Europe - again, it's just an EU summit - to make good on pledges they have made in the past to send financial aide to Iraq to help pay for reconstruction.
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