None of those issues were covered in the 1994 framework accord.

Under the framework accord, specific negotiations will take place in five more specific areas.

He made no direct mention of the issue of the settlement freeze, but maintained that it was possible "to achieve a historic framework accord within a year".

Kantor said that the Japanese side had reiterated its commitment under the framework accord to continue to promote demand-led growth and produce a highly significant decrease in its current account surplus.

The framework accord lays out the basis of military cooperation but it does not detail the specific levels of activity which each country of the partnership will contribute to the programme.

The "framework accord" provides for the creation of the United States-Chile Council on Trade and Investment for addressing specific policy grievances by either side.

For the first time, mechanisms for reaching the framework accord - in essence a general statement on how the future Israeli state and Palestinian entity would look - were agreed upon.

Oded Eran, the chief Israeli negotiator, said that if negotiations resumed, a framework accord could be reached in four to six more weeks.

But after today's missed target date for a framework accord, the prospects for concluding a comprehensive treaty in seven months seemed decidedly dimmer.

The Union and Canada in 1992 initialled a memorandum of understanding and this was to constitute a new fisheries agreement to supersede the 1981 framework accord.