Example sentences of "talk [was/were] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further such talks were held during another stopover at Bucharest by Snegur on Feb. 17 on his way to the USA , when he met Iliescu , Stolojan , and Foreign Minister Adrian Nastase . |
| 2 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 3 | In addition talks were held between Alatas and his Chinese counterpart Qian Qichen , and between Prawiro and Zheng Tuobin , Chinese Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade . |
| 4 | In January 1991 talks were held between Castro and a Mozambican delegation led by Mozambican Health Minister following rioting on Dec. 23 which led to the arrest of more than 700 Mozambican students and the death of one person . |
| 5 | Talks were held between Yemeni and Saudi Arabian government representatives in Geneva on July 21 with a view to solving the border dispute between the two countries [ see p. 38886 ] ; it was agreed that a committee of experts would be created to determine an appropriate framework for future negotiations . |
| 6 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 7 | The talks were held under the auspices of the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) , which says that most of the well-known marine fish stocks are being exploited at or far beyond the limits of sustainability , largely because of the development of deep-sea fleets working far from home . |
| 8 | Informal talks were held with the Social Democrats in June 1989 with the 1990 elections in mind , a recognition in itself that the Green pragmatists were in the ascendant and the Marxist regionalists on the wane . |
| 9 | Foreign ministers ' talks were held with the Russians in Berlin in early 1954 , but progress on a German peace treaty again proved impossible . |
| 10 | This year they stepped up attempts to sell and talks were held with UK merchant bank Singer & Friedlander before negotiations started with First National . |
| 11 | During the summit talks were held on arms control , human rights , and regional and bilateral issues , with both sides reportedly obtaining a ‘ better understanding of each other 's positions ’ on all such matters . |
| 12 | The talks were held at the CPF site and included issues which were set forth in four documents , all of them unanimously approved by community representatives and by BPXC . |
| 13 | The talks were held at Bicesse near the Portuguese resort of Estoril near Lisbon , with Portuguese mediation and with US and Soviet observers present . |
| 14 | Further Commonwealth talks were held in London in late December at which various parallel services were agreed to link Britain with India , Australia , and New Zealand ( by BOAC and QANTAS ) , and with South Africa ( BOAC and South African Airways ) . |
| 15 | Anglo-American talks were held in London on 24 August 1945 in an effort to break the deadlock , but were unsuccessful . |
| 16 | In January-February 1987 separate talks were held in Moscow with Pakistan , Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 17 | Further talks were held in New Delhi on Oct. 5 , when all parties noted with approval of the lessening of violence in Bodoland since the beginning of September and the ABSU agreed to stop the violence to create an atmosphere for a political solution to the problem . |
| 18 | Preliminary talks were held in July between a separatist delegation led by Kabui and representatives of the government including Foreign Minister ( and first post-independence Prime Minister ) Michael Somare and Justice Minister Bernard Narakobi . |
| 19 | On Dec. 31 talks were held in the offices of the Hebrew newspaper Kol Ha'Ir between Teddy Kollek , the mayor of Jerusalem , and Faisal al-Hussaini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial representative of the PLO in the city . |
| 20 | From April to November government-UNITA talks were held in Portugal , joined from September onwards by Soviet and United States advisors [ see pp. 36365 ; 37702 ; 37842 ] . |
| 21 | Peace talks were held in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on June 3-9 , June 11-15 and June 20-26 between representatives of the government and of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) ( negotiating jointly as factions of the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) ) . |
| 22 | The talks were held in the terminal of Port-au-Prince 's international airport to ensure the safety of the OAS delegates . |
| 23 | Exploratory talks were held in Beijing on in November and December [ see pp. 37860 ; 37818 ] , after which a first round of full normalization talks was held in Pyongyang in late January 1991 and a second in Tokyo in mid-March [ see p. 38098 ] . |
| 24 | During March talks were held in particular with the KLD , led by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki ( who had preceded Olszewzski as Prime Minister ) , and with the UD led by Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( who preceded Bielecki ) . |
| 25 | Regional economic co-operation talks were held in Brussels on May 11-12 and chaired by Portugal . |
| 26 | Regional arms control talks were held in Washington on May 11-12 and chaired by Russia . |
| 27 | Refugee talks were held in Ottawa on May 13-15 , chaired by Canada and attended by some 35 delegations . |
| 28 | Water sharing talks were held in Vienna on May 13-14 , chaired by Austria , and attended by more than 30 delegations , which agreed to meet again later in the year to discuss a number of issues including the creation of an international data-base on water , cross-border co-operation , methods of water management and ways to increase water resources . |
| 29 | Environmental protection talks were held in Tokyo on May 18-19 , chaired by Japan and attended by more than 35 delegations . |
| 30 | Similar talks were held in Kiev on Oct. 19-20 between Gates and high-ranking officials from the Ukrainian security services . |