If the conference produces an agreement, the parties will need to monitor and constrain arms flows and the influx of foreign fighters.
The conference follows an agreement between Brazil, South Africa, India and China that criticises unilateral decisions taken by the EU on curbing emissions, such as its emissions trading scheme.
And the President believed, having helped to work both in enunciating our commitments, as well as ensuring that the Indians and the Chinese talked about their commitments, that we could move that to the end of the conference when some agreement is likely to need some help from world leaders.
Unionist ambivalence was only heightened by the sight of Sinn Fein's special weekend conference to consider the agreement in Dublin.
But in stark contrast to today's conclave, the NPT review conference in 2005 ended without agreement, because the Bush administration refused to go along with Egypt's assault on Israel.
Senate talks with House leaders last week produced tentative plans to allow proceedings to move straight to conference committee, but an agreement stayed out of reach as the upper chamber adjourned for the weekend.
All the same, if there are substantial and eye-catching changes to the convention text, or if (as seems quite likely) the inter-governmental conference simply fails to reach agreement on time next month, there will be much hand-wringing in Brussels, Paris and Berlin.
The Sadrists, who support anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, reiterated their opposition to the security agreement at a news conference.
Mr Brown said the G8 deal paved the way for a global agreement at the UN conference in Copenhagen in December.
Ariel Sharon, whose appointment as foreign minister before the Wye conference ensured majority support for the agreement inside Israel's cabinet, is predictably even tougher than his prime minister.
Israel and the Palestinians have been trying to agree on a written set of principles outlining a future peace agreement ahead of the conference, but negotiators say they have made little progress.
He welcomed Russia's recent agreement to convene an international conference to find a political solution to the crisis.
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Conference was intended to produce a framework agreement for climate change mitigation beyond 2012, as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
There was general agreement at the Kennedy School conference that more transparency was required to understand the relative financial stability of various institutions.
He asked people to judge the two-day conference when it was completed, and an agreement hopefully reached.
Iraq's deputy parliament speaker and a spokesman for al-Sadr's movement praised the agreement Monday during a joint news conference in Baghdad.
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But Blatter wants national associations to make a "gentlemen's agreement" at Fifa's annual conference in May.
The conference is in the early stages of planning with agreement of the warring parties to attend still being sought, diplomats said.
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By contrast the conference host - Mr Schwarzenegger - sees lack of international agreement as an opportunity.
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The agreement called for the apology to take place on a conference call with Tice and the individuals to whom Greene made the allegedly slanderous comments about Tice.
Just one member of Congress held a news conference to respond to the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement.
Its marine parks agreement will be formally signed at Renewable UK Wave and Tidal Conference in London and witnessed by UK climate change minister Greg Baker and Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing.
Among other possibilities, that proposal may have included a US agreement to appoint a UN envoy responsible for organizing a UN conference calling for the Greater Middle East to become a nuclear-free zone.
"After marathon negotiations, we have reached an agreement on the government, " Mr Larayedh said in a news conference on Thursday evening.
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