Neither grand plans nor vigilant policing of interim agreements will end this tangle at a stroke.

重要的计划和临时的协议都不会立刻结束混乱。

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We agreed on the usual rules: neither side was bound by interim agreements on specific issues until a complete accord was reached, and the United States would draft the final agreement.

我们就惯常的规则达成共识：在达成一个完整的协议之前，各方均不应被具体问题的暂定协议束缚手脚，而美国则负责最终协议的起草工作。

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And earlier this year, Mr Mubarak persuaded Mr Arafat to restart talks despite their anger of Israel's failure to fulfil interim agreements.

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The paper notes that there would ultimately be a written constitution in an independent Scotland but that a constitutional platform, covering such matters as finance, the law and international agreements, would be needed in the interim to enable Holyrood to operate independently.

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More recently he has struck co-operation agreements with Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, and Bank of China. (In the interim, an attempt to buy Sarasin, a private Swiss bank owned by Rabobank of the Netherlands, came to nothing.) The aim is to have 50% of his business in emerging markets by 2015.

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