Another agreement the Soviets are likely to reach with the United States would be important in terms of financial flows.

For President Yeltsin, there are clear advantages to reaching an agreement with the United States.

Mexico is one of 29 countries that have reached new restraint agreements with the United States.

"We are confident," he concluded, "that we shall be able to reach formal agreement with the United States."

While the Soviets acquired atomic weapons in 1949, it took years for them to reach parity with the United States.

His great hope of reaching an accord with the United States over legal rights for millions of Mexican migrants seems dead.

Japan said earlier that it would build the new fighter independently if it could not reach a deal with the United States.

Furthermore, this point is going to make it easier for us to reach an agreement with the United States.

Under the agreements that we had reached with the United States, the 'push' system could start operating without any need for changes within just a few weeks.

France has expressed dissatisfaction with the farm trade agreement reached with the United States last week.