For the past several years, Russian and American officials have been trying to agree on a post-START-1 arrangement - but with little progress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Tbilisi says Moscow maintains a position that it has the right to first agree to any action another country wants to take in former-Soviet states such as Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Democratic congressional leaders hope to agree on a final version of health-care reform by September or October, once they reconcile competing plans that emerge from the Senate and the House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

The main goals of the summit are to agree on targets to cut to greenhouse-gas emissions and to set up a mechanism to provide developing countries with the billions of dollars needed to cope with climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17