The Iranian press reported earlier this week that Tehran was ready to accept the general framework of the U.N.draft deal, but was insisting on some "important changes."

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

But now executive secretary of the U.N.Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer says any decision taken next month in Copenhagen will instead be "morally binding."

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Late Thursday, the Democratic-led House and Senate voted in support of the administration's budget framework, which calls for higher spending on domestic programs like education and health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"The president will lay out the framework on many of those decisions and some of the work that has to be done between now and then to make progress in closing Guantanamo Bay."

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

"And it may not be the last." Bosworth repeated the Obama administration's policy that Washington is willing to talk one-on-one with North Korea, but only within the framework of six-nation talks begun in 2003 aimed at ending all of the North's nuclear capabilities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06