But officials said they would prefer that the states cooperate in developing acceptable practices and avoid a fight with Washington.
Both companies confirmed last week that they wanted to cooperate in developing technology for multimedia, but were not specific.
Earlier this year, for instance, Jean-Martin Folz, the chairman of Peugeot, announced a similar agreement with Ford to cooperate in developing and building diesel engines.
A year later, Rabbi Segal sharply criticized a joint agreement by 60 Conservative and Reform leaders to cooperate in developing a "liberal religious alternative" to Orthodox Judaism in Israel.
In August Secretary-General Manh made his first visit abroad, to China, where agreement was reached to demarcate the border by 2008 and cooperate in developing energy resources.
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Agents cooperate in developing a global understanding of a situation as it unfolds by exchanging information related to their local perception of events.
Dr. Maurice Bluestein, a professor of physics in the School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indiandpolis, and Randall Osczevski, an environmental physicist at Defense Research and Development Canada in Toronto, cooperated in research to develop a new wind chill chart.
"All three countries should seek ways to cooperate with Turkey in developing the region's resources".
India is cooperating with Russia in developing a submarine reactor, while Pakistan is sending feelers to France about expanding its purchases of conventional Agosta-class submarines, which could be fitted with nuclear weapons.
