His remarks - made in what was supposed to be a closed ministerial meeting - were accidentally broadcast to reporters.
Like politicians eager for ministerial office after an election, scientists who imagine their work might qualify hover discreetly near the telephone awaiting a call from Stockholm.
Trade has more than tripled in the eight years of Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK) government, visas have been abolished and ministerial meetings have been held amid much fanfare.
South Africa hosts the next annual ministerial meeting in late 2011.
Iran will be represented at the Kuwait ministerial though Rice said she has no plans for any direct contact with the Iranian delegation.
A photograph of Tony Blair as a long-haired, boater-wearing student was reproduced in a number of newspapers with focus on his less than prime ministerial hand gesture.
He could then ascend to the prime ministerial job after elections in 2014.
What Europe needs, above all, is economic growth. The first job should be to avoid waste, such as parliamentary sessions in Strasbourg and ministerial ones in Luxembourg.
This might open the way for a ministerial job in a future Tory government, although the details were not immediately clear, not least because of the muddle among the Tories.
The first and second ministerial conferences of the Forum were held in Macao in 2003 and 2006 respectively.
The ministerial conference takes place every three years in China and Africa alternately.
They cannot believe that, while Tory MPs have had to make way for Liberal Democrats in ministerial posts, almost all of Mr Cameron's advisers were kept on after the election.
It steals ministerial time and can unearth problems and proposals that can be exposed on a quiet weekend to devastating effect.
Superficial though these problems might be, they matter-as William Hague, the foreign secretary who rarely seemed prime ministerial during his time as Tory leader from 1997 to 2001, can attest.
The forum will hold senior officials' meeting and ministerial meeting in Ethiopia this year and next year.
Mr Sarkozy will doubtless make much of the inexperience of Mr Hollande, who has never held a ministerial job.
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