Some measures of the Euro debt crisis actually improved last week, even though many are still concerned that the recent central bank action and summit agreement may not be enough.
In fact, as the Center had predicted prior to the summit, every agreement in the U.S.-Soviet economic agenda (including trade, maritime, and airline pacts) was signed.
The Dutch official steered the UNFCCC through the most tortuous phase of its existence, spanning the Bali summit of 2007 that promised a new comprehensive global agreement within two years and the Copenhagen summit of 2009 that failed to deliver such an agreement.
Determined not to let the summit pass without an agreement, Ms. Merkel invited the French president, who objected to the German push for bondholder losses, to Berlin.
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As many of you will recall, coming out of the Pittsburgh summit there was an agreement that countries would pursue strong balance and sustainable growth going forward.
And I think what you'll see come out of this summit will be an agreement on further evaluating what efforts need to be taken to meet the drop in global demand.
President Obama and President Karzai both had a goal of signing this agreement before the Chicago NATO summit later this month, and we had a goal of signing this agreement on Afghan soil to demonstrate our commitment to Afghan sovereignty and this new chapter in our relationship.
Mr Blair tried to revive the directive at the summit, but getting an agreement on it will be tough going.
Blair's first test in Europe comes in just a few weeks at an emergency summit aimed at getting political agreement on a new European treaty.
The convention was supposed to thrash out all the most controversial issues so that the ministerial summit could reach a final agreement quickly and without punch-ups.
The United States and the Soviet Union are expected to sign a U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement at the Summit which will establish a boundary-line between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Bering Straits.
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The U.S. wants to finalize the basic terms of the agreement by the APEC summit in November.
Earlier this year the German EU Presidency returned to the matter and hammered out a basic agreement at its June summit.
In 1990, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.
The unscripted moments are likely to be the most interesting at the summit as there is no significant agreement expected on any of the major issues.
Perhaps most importantly, the two leaders seemed to end the summit still friends and still in agreement that it is in their countries' common interest to be allies instead of adversaries.
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The summit in December led to an agreement on a package of measures described as "balanced", although Ms Hedegaard admitted during a statement to MEPs on 18 January 2012 that it was not "the perfect outcome for climate change".
And so the Strategic Partnership Agreement, this NATO Summit, are all part and parcel of a shared vision that we have in which Afghanistan is able to transition from decades of war to a transformational decade of peace and stability and development.
He is clearly passionate on the subject, but having witnessed Copenhagen at first hand is realistic about the chances of the summit throwing up a full and lasting agreement on fighting climate change.
Other issues to be dealt with at the summit include the future of the Schengen agreement on the free movement of EU citizens, and the signing of an accession treaty between the EU and Croatia, allowing the ex-Yugoslav country to join the union in 2013.
The two Presidents had set a clear goal for the agreement to be signed for the summit in Chicago.
The U.S.-Soviet Trade Agreement could be signed at the Summit, even though present indications are that it will be pulled from the agenda.
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All sides are going into the summit swearing that they are determined to reach agreement, and yet some governments might be quietly thankful for a failure.
The market recovery gained speed in the final days of June as a summit of Eurozone leaders in Brussels produced an agreement to relax conditions for emergency bank loans.
Leaders of the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere ended their fourth Summit of the Americas this weekend with no agreement to create a free trade zone for the region.
The Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti warns today that without a major agreement at next week's summit "there would be progressively speculative attacks on individual countries, with harassment of the weaker countries".
It highlights the deliverables coming out of this summit -- not just the free trade agreement, but all the other work that has been done, such as the increase in the length of visitor visas.
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The EU summit in Barcelona last month ended with an agreement on a major liberalisation of energy markets - a deal which France had threatened to block to protect its giant state electricity monopoly, Electricite de France.
The negotiations to secure significant reductions in Russian and U.S. offensive nuclear stockpiles and nuclear-weapons delivery systems appear to be on track for a framework agreement by the July 6 Moscow summit and a final treaty by December, White House officials say.
The Center for Security Policy today revealed a pernicious mischaracterization of the Soviet strategic threat that has profound implications for the U.S. START negotiating position at the Washington summit, for the actual value of the agreement that may result and, ultimately, for American national security.
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