The UN and EU have set a final deadline for agreement of February 28th.
With the two sides so polarised, it seems unlikely there will be much room for agreement at this meeting.
We found common ground for agreement, and that produced the statement of alleged violations to which Mr. Gingrich has admitted.
The meetings Friday and Saturday are at best expected to achieve enough progress for agreement to hold another round of talks.
Greenwood insists that there is plenty of ground for agreement to produce a unified Republican voice, without bringing in more controversial issues.
One of the areas Lamy says the WTO is reviewing is whether it needs to offer up multiple topics to 153 members for agreement.
The so-called super committee of U.S. congress members has failed to agree on U.S. spending cuts as the deadline for agreement occurs this week.
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Mr Trimble's best hope is that the silent unionist mass has indeed been hoping all along for agreement, but has been deterred by the spectacle of assertive nationalism.
The Doha round of talks at the WTO was intended to favour poorer nations but the likelihood of securing a hoped-for agreement by the end of the year look very slim.
He also called for the EU to "look at options for agreement" with the US in a deal that "could have a bigger impact than all of the other agreements put together".
The states also will look for agreement on the best way to regulate ballast water dumped by oceangoing cargo ships, the primary vehicle by which aquatic invasive species have reached the Great Lakes.
The fear is that the ground for the great over-arching deal planned for agreement in 2015 will be insufficiently prepared as nations coast through the next few years with apparently plenty of time ahead.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell met with the President for more than an hour and emerged optimistic about the potential for agreement.
There is little sign lawmakers and advocacy groups on either side of the debate are willing to alter their stances, though room for agreement may exist in some areas, such as requiring states to increase their submission of mental-health records to the background-check system used to screen people buying guns from federally licensed dealers.
Nor can one take unionist support for the agreement for granted.
The two Presidents had set a clear goal for the agreement to be signed for the summit in Chicago.
This is the fourth round of negotiations for a new agreement for the management of shared fish stocks in the waters between the European Union countries and Norway, but one potentially stumbling block will be mackerel quotas.
The renewed agreement allows for a price hike of 7% in any of the four years of the six year agreement for both the domain names.
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Speaker Boehner made a wise move calling for an agreement to raise the debt ceiling for three months and demanding serious discussions about budget cuts.
"We recognize the progress now being made by the Cypriot government toward a solution which can pave the way for an agreement on a financial assistance program for Cyprus, " European monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels.
The Formula One Teams Association (Fota) said as well as a package for 2010, an agreement for a cost-cutting plan for 2009 had also been reached.
Their defection to the anti-agreement unionist camp could mean that there is no overall unionist majority for the agreement.
We are working for international agreement to extend this to cover other countries which provide export credits for poor countries as well.
It has an agreement with the sultanate for the pre-positioning of support equipment for 26, 000 personnel at Masirah, Thumrait and Seeb airports, and an agreement for the use of these airports as bases.
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In return for his agreement to do so, the Shin Bet agreed not to prosecute him for illegally possessing classified materials.
Malloy pushed for an agreement between majority Democratic lawmakers and Republican counterparts on a series of new laws that were headed for a vote Wednesday.
But the enhanced season issue could potentially be the impetus for a new agreement, and for NFL football in 2011.
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The Greek prime minister said he looks for an agreement to be sealed this week.
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