To further help the South, he forms a economic pact with the Iron and Ice Kingdoms.

Then Russian officials disclosed plans to sign a five-year, $40 billion economic pact with Iraq.

Without Russia and the Ukraine, the two largest and richest republics, any economic pact was meaningless.

The Ukraine has tentatively joined the separate economic pact, although with repeatedly stated misgivings from Kiev politicians about its chances for success.

On 1 April 1979 the last British forces left the island after the end of the economic pact to stabilise the Maltese economy.

The division overshadowed the Union's economic pact with Russia, which offers both sides initial advantages.

Will the new era be dominated by regional alliances and economic pacts or by a renewal of global and multilateral institutions?

Ukrainian officials said they would not join with other republics in a proposed economic pact intended to create a free market.

A great social and economic pact has recently been signed between the government, union leaders and business leaders in Spain.

Results: Treaty banning underground nuclear arms tests with yields exceeding 150 kilotons; 10-year economic pact.