BEIJING, June 9 (UPI). The dispute over the site of an international women's forum ended Friday with the China Organizing Committee agreeing to closed-circuit television and a bus shuttle service linking the participants with the U.N. Women's Conference in the capital.

After two days scrutinizing the venue for the Non-Governmental Organizations' forum in Huairou and the site of the main conference in the north of Beijing, Khunying Supatra Masdit said the committee "has made much progress on all recommendations."

China's abrupt decision in April to shift the meeting site for the NGO Forum from a sports complex in Beijing to Huairou more than an hour's drive away sparked protests from women's groups accusing Beijing of trying to suppress free expression and exert control over the event.

Forum organizers complained the facilities 40 miles (53 km) from Beijing were too small. Last month the NGO Facilitating Committee visited Huairou and asked the Chinese government to put forward an alternative site.

China declined to do so in addition to excluding delegates of groups representing Tibet and Taiwan.

While China said the original site, the huge Workers' Stadium, had structural problems, sources in the capital said city officials were jittery over the prospect of embarrassing protests.