Below the Summit

Abstract

As the Chogms became shorter, meetings below the summit — those of ministerial groups and senior officials — took on a greater significance. The three-and-a-half-day pattern established by the Heads of Government in the mid-1990s left no opportunity for the leisurely reviews of global trends that had prevailed in the past. On the positive side, this also eliminated the posturing that had once been endured from set-piece orations or the weeklong donnybrooks like that which occurred over Rhodesia.