Estonia, Hungary, and Slovenia have signed cooperative agreements with ESA in preparation for eventual full membership.
With such cooperative agreements, drug companies could trim their individual marketing budgets.
But journalists in Iraq expect further cooperative agreements and other pooling of resources in the months ahead.
The consortium has more than 1,500 suppliers and holds cooperative agreements with numerous companies in many countries.
Mr. Peña Nieto, who took office in December, has made steps in recent months to centralize his country's fight against violence, rethinking some longstanding cooperative agreements with Washington.
Only two in five educational institutions have cooperative agreements with their communities, and only one in four has regular meetings with neighborhood officials.
The alliance recently received cooperative agreements totaling more than $1.3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is to be used to increase public awareness.
In all, the institute has more than 36 individual grants and cooperative agreements with NASA, said Thomas Pierson, chairman of the institute.
The European Union has directed countries to set up a board similar to the American board, and it hopes to work out cooperative agreements with such groups.
Publishers now focus their marketing dollars on cooperative agreements with chain bookstores, which guarantee that certain books will receive prominent display at the front of stores.
The fulfillment of cooperative agreements between Athens and Ankara, continued joint NATO activities and an emphasis on reciprocity can enhance the prospects for resolving Greek-Turkish problems.
