On Monday,the ECOWAS mediator met with a Niger government delegation, also in Abuja as a prelude to a wider stakeholder forum on Niger at a later date.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The march was really a prelude to others that will coincide with the so called G-20 summit of world leaders that will take place here on Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

And the Jordanian monarch came to the White House last week as a prelude to a new round of personal diplomacy by the president designed to get the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26