Alas, there is no agreement on how to update the Security Council.

There is no agreement on what, if anything, constitutes an appropriate target for espionage.

There is no consensus as to what the various branches of applied mathematics are.

That will not serve a final agreement on Council reform.

Despite all that, agreement was recently reached on some of these important issues, first and foremost that of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt an agreement which we hope will be implemented in full and appropriately and will lead to agreement on all the other pending issues.

There is no agreement yet on this issue, and the work of the expert groups is ongoing.

The Preparatory Committee had not reached an agreement on a provisional agenda for the Conference.

In that regard, we welcome the recent signing by the Government of Austria of an Agreement on the Enforcement of Sentences.

For example, there is no agreement on the market values of financial institutions housing related assets.

This is especially true where there is broad agreement about the best policy to deal with the crisis.

We must strive to reach agreement on credible measures to ensure that all States parties are complying with their obligations.

Before a no confidence vote can be held, agreement must be reached on a new government majority to take its place.

The Colombian people are counting on the talks to result in agreement on a clear path toward the end of internal armed conflict.

Re launching discussion of a new agreement on climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012.

There is even disagreement about whether Hu s trip to Washington is an official state visit.

Finally, not everyone agrees on the matter, and not everyone thinks canceling Khul is a bad move.

The Board directed the Global Office to seek a common agreement among the regions on the level of detail to be published.

On 17 June, the six parties came to an agreement on forming a coalition government, led by Katainen and consisting of 19 ministers.

Our proposal has been submitted to indicate the serious nature of our position and our desire for an early agreement on Security Council reform.

Getting agreement over anything is difficult for a European Union of 27 members.

The next step was to reach an agreement on substantive textual proposals for individual articles of the protocol, so as to extend the scope of protection under the Convention.

In 2002, at the Monterrey Conference, the international community agreed on a framework for reaching that goal.

It is essential that all major opposition groups achieve agreement about their aims and negotiating positions.

Third, developing countries should lead the debate over a new global agreement, in order to ensure equity and protect their right to develop.

With good will and determination, we can surely arrive at agreement within the next few weeks on a package.

By the end of the year, we should come to an agreement on how we can invigorate the process and carry it forward into 2006.

Clearly, no final agreement on water will be possible until there are agreed upon borders between the State of Israel and the State of Palestine, and some resolution of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

There is no debate about respecting the existing agreed framework for the solution to the Ivorian crisis, as provided for in the Linas Marcoussis and the Accra II and III Agreements.

At the outset, the Federation and its member national societies, and our colleagues from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), quickly reached agreement on our cooperation in the region.

Third, and most important, there was widespread agreement about how consensus within the Security Council on the hardest cases might be recreated.

This year, we deployed F 22s and MV 22 Ospreys to Japan and reached an important agreement to relocate our forces on Okinawa.

Banking union is a positive development, but there is no agreement on additional reforms, such as the creation of a common fiscal capacity or a common treasury.

Governments are currently gathered in Poznan, Poland, to reach agreement on how to address the major challenges that stem from global warming.

To what extent any such agreement could hold in the scramble for limited FDI remained debatable, however.

Kazakhstan calls for an early agreement on the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism in order to develop further an integrated legal mechanism to counter international terrorism.

Those talks ended up with progress on several crucial fronts, such as getting developed and developing countries to jointly agree on emissions targets for the first time, but were marred by scenes of chaos in the final hours and bitter recriminations among governments.

But the political cards will be reshuffled, and there will be a new deal on global warming, when America next elects a president in November 2008.

Even if there is agreement on the need for a common resolution fund which is not clear there is no agreement on how to pay for it.

Although no agreement had been reached on the extent of that enhancement and the means to achieve it, it was encouraging to note that the work was still on track.

Karzai has sought to finesse the issue by arguing that a peace agreement that ended the insurgency would bring about the withdrawal of all foreign military forces.

So far, the good offices of the Norwegian government have failed to produce an agreement on the key question of the post independence distribution of oil revenues between North and South.

But we might still fail to reach agreement on who should pay for funding these programs, or for reducing our consumption of resources.

The Plaza meeting produced an accord on concerted intervention to push down the value of the dollar, which all participants agreed was overvalued.

1.64 The emphasis would be on strengthening overall policy dialogue, deepening collaboration at the country level around existing programming instruments and reaching agreement on financial mechanisms.

This article by Đôn Lê is from Loa, an independent news website and podcast that broadcasts stories about Vietnam, and is republished by Global Voices as part of a content sharing agreement.