13th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ( SBSTTA-13 ) held from 18 to 22 February 2008 in the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome, Italy.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

In the year 777 – 778, several notable men including Sulayman ibn Yokdan al-Arabi al-Kelbi, the self-appointed governor of Zaragoza, met with delegates of the leader of the Franks, Charlemagne.

Fatah delegates resolved not to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks until preconditions were met.

On 8 March 870, three days after the end of the counsel the Papal and Eastern delegates met with the Bulgarian ambassadors led by the kavhan Peter to decide the status of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

The first session of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China was attended by 13 delegates, Mao included, and initially met in a girls ' school that had been closed for the summer.

In September 1774, the First Continental Congress brought together delegates from the colonies in Philadelphia, followed by the Second Continental Congress, which met from May 1775 to March 1781.

The First Continental Congress, which met briefly in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from September 5, to October 26, in 1774 and consisted of fifty-six delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States of America.

By the time the Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775 in Philadelphia, the Battles of Lexington and Concord had already begun in April, and while delegates were still making their way to Philadelphia, which marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

Although Thomas C. Platt and other disaffected party leaders mounted a dump-Harrison movement coalescing around veteran candidate James G. Blaine of Maine, the president's forces had the nomination locked up by the time delegates met in Minneapolis on June 7-10, 1892.

The 926 Republican delegates to the Republican convention, which met in Philadelphia on June 19 – 21, renominated William McKinley by acclamation.

In 1884, 36 Jewish Zionist delegates met in Katowice, forming the Hovevei Zion movement.

In a technical sense, the " Congress of Vienna " was not properly a Congress: it never met in plenary session, and most of the discussions occurred in informal, face-to-face, sessions among the Great Powers of Austria, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and sometimes Prussia, with limited or no participation by other delegates.

In October of that year, at the behest of U. S. President Chester A. Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D. C., for the International Meridian Conference.

First, at the district and municipal level, traditional shura councils met to pick electors — persons who cast ballots for Loya Jirga delegates.

In June 1992, nearly 200 delegates from dozens of opposition groups met in Vienna, along with Iraq's two main Kurdish militias, the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ).

On 1 March 1886, at the Rechabite Hall, Wellington, 30 delegates – representing Auckland, Nelson, Hawke's Bay, Woodville, Canterbury, New Plymouth, Dunedin, Wellington, Alexandra ( Otago ), Invercargill, Greymouth, Masterton, the Blue Ribbon Union, the Good Templars Lodge, the Rechabite Lodge, and the Wellington Alliance met, to establish a union of the temperance alliances in New Zealand.

In 1855, ninety-nine YMCA delegates from Europe and North America met in Paris at the First World Conference of YMCAs for the first time before the 1855 Paris World Exposition.

His speech was met by cheers from conservative delegates and loud boos from pro-Eisenhower delegates.

At the 2004 annual general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation, which is the largest member of the governing coalition, deputy chair Badruddin Amiruldin cautioned against questioning the Bumiputras ' special rights, which met with approval from the delegates: " Let no one from the other races ever question the rights of Malays on this land.

The forty-three delegates representing Indiana Territory's counties were charged with the writing of the state's constitution and met inside the Harrison County Courthouse.

In 1897, at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, a log house that had been moved from Greeneville was displayed as the capitol where the State of Franklin's delegates met in the 1780s.

In late May 1861, just before the secession vote, delegates of the East Tennessee Convention met at Temperance Hall in Knoxville in hopes of keeping Tennessee in the Union.

His speech, which was broadcast live on Polish radio and via speakers on the streets of Wrocław, about the right of everyone to hold different views from those who hold power, was enthusiastically received by the delegates and was met with thunderous applause.

Some delegates objected to the establishment of the Politburo, and in response, the Politburo became responsible to the Central Committee, and Central Committee members could participate in Politburo sessions with a consultative voice, but could not vote unless they were members.

The tone of the 17th Party Congress was different than its predecessors ; several old oppositionists became delegates, and were re-elected to the Central Committee.

For instance, at the congresses in 1962 and 1971 the delegates elected the Central Committee unanimously.

Every four years the IMU membership gathers in a General Assembly ( GA ) which consists of delegates appointed by the Adhering Organizations, together with the members of the Executive Committee.

The foundation of the Terror is centered on the April 1793 creation of the Committee of Public Safety and its militant Jacobin delegates.

They are elected from the delegates who serve on the Green National Committee.

National convention delegates vote on changes to the party's national platform and bylaws, and elect representatives to the Libertarian National Committee ( LNC ).

Once the convention came to order, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, chair of the Committee on Resolutions, read the proposed platform to cheers by many delegates ; the reading of the pro-gold minority report attracted less applause.

Representation of the military increased by a large margin from the previous Congress ( 28 % of the delegates were PLA members ), and the election of more PLA members to the new Central Committee reflected this increase.

In times of armed conflict between a signatory of the Geneva conventions and another party, delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) monitor the compliance of signatories to the Geneva Conventions, which includes monitoring the use of torture.

Regional and local authorities elect delegates to the Committee of the Regions.

The Township Committee serves both as the township's executive and legislative body, and derives from the state statutes which delegates powers, prescribe the offices and structure and establish various procedures under which the Township must operate.

The Glen Ridge Civic Conference Committee, established in 1913, is made up of delegates from the community and from local civic organizations, provides a non-partisan method of candidate selection for Borough elections.

The delegates play different games which are meant to bring the delegates from an initial shyness stage to a comfortable, open atmosphere optimal for efficient Committee work.

Gorham frequently served as Chairman of the Convention's Committee of the Whole, meaning that he ( rather than the President of the Convention, George Washington ) presided over convention sessions during the delegates ' first deliberations on the structure of the new government in late May and June 1787.

After several delegates, including representatives of the Jewish Bund, stormed out of the Congress in protest for unrelated reasons, Lenin's supporters won a slight majority, which was reflected in the composition of the Central Committee and the other central Party organs elected at the Congress.

All the male and female delegates handed forward their credentials, and a number of men, including Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson, were appointed to the Business Committee.

Higginson rose to speak, saying that, since women were now properly serving as delegates, they should be represented on the Committee.

According to Carol Rosenberg, writing in The Miami Herald: " The pictures were taken in July, said International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman Bernard Barrett, under an agreement with prison camp staff that lets Red Cross delegates photograph detainees and send photos to family members.

The YSI is represented on the SNP National Executive Committee and can send delegates to meetings of the SNP Annual National Conference.

John Brown, an agent for the Boston Committee of Correspondence, arrived in Montreal in early 1775 as part of an effort to persuade citizens to send delegates to the Second Continental Congress, scheduled to meet in May 1775.

Pendleton served as President of the Virginia Committee of Safety from August 16, 1775 to July 5, 1776 ( effectively serving as governor of the colony ) and as President of the Virginia Convention which authorized Virginia's delegates to propose a resolution to move for the break from Britain and creation of the Declaration of Independence.