It is the commitment to resume talks on Kashmir that would offer Pakistan hope of avoiding complete humiliation.
The talks showed few concrete results, beyond a vague commitment to resume regular, lower-level talks between the two nations' finance officials.
He said that Mr. Netanyahu held the key to beginning direct talks, which would involve an Israeli commitment to resume negotiations from the point at which they ended in December 2008 and a freeze of all Israeli settlement construction, including in East Jerusalem.
While Mr. Liu called recent developments related to North Korea's weapons program "worrying," he said both the United States and North Korea had expressed a commitment to resume negotiations and that China had "not lost hope" in arranging a new round of talks.
But Israeli commentators consider it unlikely that Mr. Sharon would make any such announcements, or any commitments to resume dialogue with the Palestinians, given the continued gunfire.
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Israeli lawyer who had worked for Mr. Abbas on negotiations, saw the statement as all but a commitment by the Palestinian president to resume talks.
The sum indicates the school's commitment to safety and its desire to resume its research program, which totals less than $6 million a year in funding, she said.
American officials have also stressed that it is important to secure a commitment from Israel and the Palestinian leaders to resume formal negotiations before September, when the United Nations General Assembly will again take up the Palestinian issue.
Nonetheless, it is Pakistan that is now on the spot.Mr Clinton presumably hopes to elicit from General Musharraf a commitment to rein in the militancy in Kashmir in return for an Indian agreement to resume dialogue on the disputed state.
He did promise to resume paying dividends for Trusts I through IV, but made no commitment for Trust V and the Power Growth Fund.
