President Bush should reaffirm the Reagan Administration policy opposing framework agreements which establish binding commitments bereft of detailed implementing arrangements, in particular those that bear upon the verifiability of such accords.

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The Law Commission, which helps Parliament tidy up legislation, is currently looking into a statutory framework for prenuptial agreements.

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Parties invoke the Convention in different contexts and manners, such as by participating in meetings and conferences, within the framework of cultural or trade agreements.

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India's offer is for talks within the framework of the Lahore and Shimla agreements, which Pakistan signed but does not much like.

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The report conceded that the Treasury does have a duty to ensure that taxpayers' money was spent efficiently but it should not use the spending review and public service agreements to create the framework within which other departments worked.

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This was because of the "archaic spider's web" of thousands of bilateral agreements which had been the legal framework underpinning international air travel since the post-war period.

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Moreover, all the main support measures undertaken in Central and Eastern Europe, like the Vienna Initiative, for instance, were not legally binding agreements, but based on voluntary participation within a multilateral framework.

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He is concerned that these tribes might not fully comprehend the implications of these agreements because their outlook on life is so different, and that there is no clear international legal framework to protect their rights in the long-term.

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