"So I expect that this ministerial will give new impetus to precisely to this area that you mentioned which is training.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Clinton,who flew to Manila from ministerial meetings in Singapore of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, held evening dinner talks with Philippines President Gloria Arroyo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Spokesman Apathurai: "What you will hear out of this ministerial is a very strong endorsement of the transition of the need to transition and the need to resource transition,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Meanwhile, Russia has pulled out of ministerial talks with NATO scheduled for later this month to protest the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from its mission at alliance headquarters in Brussels.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to have attended the G-8 ministerial, and a weekend meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Greece, but had to cancel because of her recent surgery for a broken elbow.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24