Opec has said that something needs to be done, and has made a vague commitment to trim between 500,000 to 1m barrels a day from current output, but it has yet to flesh out the details.
At the present time, Egypt and Israel have made a vague commitment that negotiations would continue, perhaps at another summit meeting.
Instead, what we have is a vague commitment to "a landmark proposal" but no further detail.
"It all has a vague historical subtext.
The set has a vague, split-level structure.
SCA17 has a vague boundary for the expansion number for the pathologic range.
But it has a vaguely irreal effect.
Korine still has a vaguely adolescent snicker.
Monday night's failure of EU interior ministers to agree on anything more than a vague commitment to resolving the crisis has provoked fury in Berlin with Eastern European EU members singled out for their reluctance to share the burden.
This month a summit of western Balkan nations in Paris resulted in a vague commitment that nations such as Macedonia and Albania still had an eventual route to membership.
