Established in 1789, it is the oldest of the federal departments and the president's principal means of conducting treaty negotiations and forging agreements with foreign countries.
The Obama Administration had a "reset" policy with Russia, forging agreements and coöperating on select issues, despite an over-all increase in tension.
Aviation is an international business and airlines are used to forging agreements to fly into countries that are far from allies, let alone in the same political union.
Others, like John Chipman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, proposed that the Group of 20 be given more powers of enforcement in the international security as well as financial regulation, since the Security Council has difficulty forging agreements.
Before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mexico and the United States had committed themselves to forging agreements that would, among other things, expand the number of Mexican workers allowed into the United States.
The Philippine government has been involved in forging agreements with other states to penetrate the international labor market and to ensure that prospective migrants have job opportunities abroad.
"However given the exclusion of Netflix, EE must strongly consider forging agreements with other key rights owners including BSkyB for its Now TV service.
That's why it made a series of moves over the last several years to partner with enterprise bedrock companies, forging agreements with IBM, SAP and Cisco, with professional services giants like Accenture and Deloitte and, most recently, GE.
Beyond this, California is forging agreements with other states and nations so that we do not stand alone in advancing these climate objectives.
