A final agreement over the return of the subsidiary, however, may be delayed.
LAST month Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, promised that he would soon sign an international agreement requiring the return of abducted children to their home countries.
For the second time in three years Yale University and the government of Peru have reached a tentative agreement on the return of a large group of artifacts excavated in 1912 at Machu Picchu by a Yale explorer.
And he noted that previous breakthroughs - including the 1973 establishment of full diplomatic relations and Margaret Thatcher's agreement on the return of Hong Kong - had taken place under Conservative prime ministers.
Hong Kong and China do not have an agreement on the return of suspects because of concerns in Hong Kong, which does not have the death penalty, about sending suspects to the mainland, which does.
Now the Russian and German governments are close to reaching an agreement for the return of the window, 70 feet high by 14 feet wide, to its original home at St . Marys Cathedral in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, near the Polish border.
Experts say that no international agreements mandate the return of items stolen so long ago.
A settlement of the suit in February included an agreement calling for the return of Mr. Bertoia's sculptures.
None of this has changed Syria's conviction that any peace agreement must include the return of the Golan Heights, the area captured by Israel in 1967.
He expressed doubt that an agreement would guarantee the return of all the strikers but said that he could not speak authoritatively until he had more details.
In Thursday's session, he led a walkout when other parties voted against addressing Iraqiya's demands for power sharing, which include a newly created position for Mr. Allawi and an agreement to allow the return of three Iraqiya members who are banned from Parliament because of their previous association with Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
