But Wendy Sherman, the US Under Secretary for Political affairs, told the Brussels Forum that the Geneva agreement "is still a basis for reaching a solution" to the conflict.

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We have welcomed the Geneva agreement from day one.

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Meanwhile Yossi Beilin, a former Labour minister, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, a former minister in the Palestinian Authority, has signed a similar agreement, known as the Geneva accord, after two years of dogged negotiation.

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin criticized the NATO bombing campaign, but allowed his diplomatic envoy to approve the Friday's agreement in Geneva.

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One document he likes, which could be part of the ideas he is said to be sharpening, is one of the rare moments of diplomatic agreement between the five permanent members of the Security Council, after a meeting in Geneva in June.

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Union, Mr. Kampelman engaged in protracted negotiations in Geneva during the Reagan administration that resulted in a 1987 agreement in which the two superpowers agreed to eliminate ground-launched intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

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On 2 February 2011, MEPs debated an agreement struck in Geneva in 2009 designed to end the 16-trade dispute with Latin America known as the "banana war".

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The key difference this time is an unprecedented agreement between Bertarelli, chief executive of Serono S.A., the Geneva-based biotechnology company, and fellow billionaire Larry Ellison, whose Team Oracle is the so-called Challenger of Record.

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