But American officials concede the long term agreement called SOFA, or Status of Forces Agreement, is now off the table.
The agreement commits the United States and Afghanistan to initiate negotiations on a bilateral security agreement, to supersede our current status of forces agreement.
Without an agreement on the status of Kosovo, any lull in the killing is likely to be just that, a lull.
It is realistic to expect that any final status agreement will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes that reflect these realities.
Councils signed the "single status agreement" in 1997, committing local authorities to delivering equal pay for women workers where their wages had fallen behind the men.
Mr Bush has also to find a way to leave to his successor the business of negotiating a new agreement on the status of American forces in Iraq.
One is the left wing option presented by Mr. Peretz and that is, to go for a final status agreement, hoping that peace in our time, peace next year is possible.
Last month, the US and Niger struck an agreement on the status of US forces as the two nations "define precisely what kind of military presence we may have in Niger in the future", a spokeswoman for the US state department said.
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Obviously the agreement that has been signed by the two governments is a status of forces agreement that ends all American personnel by the end of 2011.
The league's current collective bargaining agreement calls for keeping the status quo through the 2009 season, then to remove the salary cap in 2010 if an agreement isn't reached by then.
She favours an agreement that solves all final status issues, not a phased one.
There was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement.
Members also have further doubts that stem from his role in the botched 2011 status of forces agreement negotiations.
The Iraqi government approved the Status of Forces Agreement the Sunday before last, sending the measure to parliament to be debated.
Number two, with regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement.
The US and Niger signed a status of forces agreement last month, and the US is weighing a base for surveillance drones there, US media have reported.
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But a section of the Status of Forces Agreement pertaining to Pentagon contractors says "primary jurisdiction falls to the government of Iraq, " the senior Defense department official said.
The process, as you know, is simply that we are abiding by the status of forces agreement that will have us withdrawing the remainder of our troops by the end of this year.
The agreement did not address the status of disputed areas along the border and the fate of Abyei, critical security issues that must be resolved if the two countries are to have lasting peace.
He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.
If not, would the United States support a bid by the Baltic states to obtain observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
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Afghanistan's Council of Ministers called on the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs to start negotiating a "status of forces" agreement with international forces, which include U.S. and NATO troops.
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The Center for Security Policy noted today that the United States has officially dropped its major precondition concerning Soviet observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
The two sides promised, when they signed the Oslo peace agreement in 1993, that the status of Jerusalem would stay unchanged until they negotiated its future as part of a final settlement.
After convening on Monday morning, Afghanistan's Council of Ministers called on the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs to start negotiating a "status of forces" agreement with international forces -- which include U.S. and NATO troops.
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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The Bush Administration should at once repudiate its recent concession to Moscow which would permit the Soviet Union to obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
Zebari said Baghdad wants more clarification in the status-of-forces agreement regarding the issue of jurisdiction.
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