"Data retention for the purpose of investigating serious crimes is necessary and that remains the case," the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, told reporters after the ruling, urging quick agreement on more narrowly defined new legislation.
The door to achieving our objectives is rapidly closing, and while I strongly urge an agreement on emissions, I have a simple message for the participants in these talks: Don't wait for a global deal.
But Wal-Mart and numerous other American retailers and apparel companies have sought to maintain a distance from the April 24 building collapse, and have balked at the worker safety agreement urged by consumer and labor groups.
Mr. Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat who helped broker the 1993 Oslo peace agreement, urged Israel to lift its two-month-long clampdown on the movement of Palestinian goods and workers to Israel and between Gaza and the West Bank.
In a detailed judgment of the peace accord signed Aug. 7 by Central America's five presidents, the 13-nation verification commission set up to monitor the agreement urged the leaders to negotiate "a plan of execution and a calendar of compliance" to advance the peace process beyond this week's deadline.
In the introduction the respondents were urged to reach agreement.
Malawi has raised concern with the weak certification rules and the absence of any provision for dispute settlement, and accordingly, it has urged that the agreement be renegotiated to tighten up on manufacturing certification and include cumulation, dispute settlement mechanisms and a list of sensitive products (Imani-Capricon, 2001).
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon welcomed the ceasefire agreement and urged both sides to adhere to it, his chief spokesman said.
Mr Zardari has been urged to seek an agreement with Mr Sharif that would defuse the fears of some observers that Pakistan's military could decide to intervene.
Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, was among the first to welcome what he described as a historic agreement and urged both sides to finalise it.
