The two leaders also sensibly agreed in Malta to seek a bilateral accord to destroy most chemical weapons.

The details should be worked out in separate bilateral accords between national federations, the document said.

It must first reach bilateral accords with major trading partners.

The campaign is credited with ultimately leading to a bilateral accord on acid rain being signed later in the decade.

China needs to conclude bilateral accords with major partners before it can enter the global body.

They can reach near-final bilateral accord on an agreement to begin destroying chemical weapons and to ban their production.

Cameroon has an investment guaranty agreement and a bilateral accord with the United States.

Mr. Clinton's own negotiators said last year that the talks were a bilateral accord.

In recent weeks, reports have suggested that the Syrians and the Israelis were close to reaching their own bilateral accord.

And Washington's valid security concerns over ties to the Soviet bloc can be addressed in a bilateral accord.