In a major agreement aimed at safeguarding nuclear fuel that could be used to make weapons, Russia has promised to stop making plutonium out of fuel from its civilian power reactors as part of a $100 million joint research and aid package from the United States, Clinton administration and Russian officials say.
He will have seen May in Brussels, and there does not appear to be any major agreement in the works.
Major agreement in the next three to five years seems unlikely, Fan Xihou, director of the Taiwan Research Institute of Xiamen University, said in an interview.
Still, he doesn't expect a "major" agreement in the next seven days -- the amount of time Hoyer estimates Congress will have to craft a short-term solution, given a busy September schedule that includes debate on the Iran deal and a visit from Pope Francis. .
Even if his visit resulted in no major agreements, Mr. Clinton could pave the way for the next president to conclude a permanent peace settlement in Korea.
If there was nothing else going on, it would be difficult enough to put together in just three weeks the major agreement on the ABM treaty apparently envisioned with Mr. Putin.
In 2004 China signed a major agreement to buy oil and gas from Iran, as well as to develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field.
In 2013, MIT-Haiti established a major agreement with the Haitian government.
By Jonathan Schell The New Yorker, December 9 , 1985P. 35 In the absence of major agreements at the summit conference in Geneva, what lingers in the mind is the sheer fact of the meetings between the two heads of state--meetings not of two political systems or of two nuclear arsenals, but of two men.
In the absence of major agreements at the summit conference in Geneva, what lingers in the mind is the sheer fact of the meetings between the two heads of state--meetings not of two political systems or of two nuclear arsenals, but of two men.
