Panama is likely to follow its neighbours with a bilateral trade pact with the United States in the next six months.
The White House could use its South Korean trade pact as a late bargaining chip for fast-track renewal, though it might be a low-value one.
Nobody failed to see the irony that it was Germany which, in the late 1990s, had insisted on a rigid stability pact as its price for accepting the euro.
The latest Western company to strike a significant deal in India is Paris-headquartered Sanofi which inked a licensing pact Monday with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals , a rising outfit known for its efforts in drug discovery.
To be sure, French voters elected socialist Francois Hollande, who favors the European Union and reflexively supports the vision of its founders that has seen it evolve from a trade pact to a community to proto-political union.
Here's the bind: Europe chose to tackle its debt crisis not just by cutting deficits but by adopting a pact that limits spending in the future.
The Delhi High Court, in its order Monday, asked Ericsson and Micromax to negotiate a FRAND pact in the next one month, according to a copy of the order posted on the court's website.
Whatever the merits of the stability pact as a long-term policy tool, its short-term impact is now perverse.
Though Kazakhstan takes part in a customs union with Russia and is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security pact that includes both Russia and China, its largest trade partner is the European Union.
Mr Kennedy says he expects Labour to honour its pledge but he strenuously denies any suggestion of a pre-election pact between himself and the prime minister to introduce the lesser form of proportional representation - the Alternative Vote system.
The stability pact would surely wither if its chief sponsor defied it for a fourth year running.
Although now defunct, its exact capabilities in listening in on Warsaw Pact phones and radios remain a secret.
Sears signed a broad partnership pact with AOL, marketing an AOLservice throughout its stores with the Sears name gracing the screen.
America and its European allies reserved the right to use nuclear weapons to defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion.
Indeed, should its bid fail, Sanofi may find itself prey rather than predator, as a shareholder pact protecting it from takeover expires at the end of this year.
This week's accord could result in little more than a return to a 1994 pact between America and North Korea, by which North Korea froze its operations at Yongbyon in return for fuel oil shipments and an agreement eventually to provide replacement nuclear reactors that could less easily be used to make weapons material.
In 1940, when the Soviet Union was discussing the details of a peace pact made in 1939 with Germany (to be broken when Germany invaded in 1941), its Berlin embassy was short of linguists.
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