We urge all the parties to the dispute to adopt reciprocal and balanced confidence-building measures and to show the flexibility necessary to allow a peace conference to be convened on the basis set out in this initiative.

On the other hand, Netanyahu expected such methods to bludgeon Palestinians into accepting everything Israel did, with no reciprocal Israeli measures.

Presumably, the reciprocal measures would also be applied to East Germany and Czechoslovakia, where Soviet missiles of somewhat shorter range have been installed.

President Bush, if faced with unfair foreign restrictions in the meat sector, is authorized to take reciprocal measures.

In return for the I.R.A.'s destruction of arms, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 required the British to take reciprocal measures of demilitarization.

"The intifada continues to have a catalytic effect, which makes any appeal for reciprocal measures to cool tensions rather delicate," a Western diplomat said.

The plan - named for George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, envisions a series of reciprocal measures to restore the status quo before the current conflict and permit an eventual return to negotiations.

My supplementary question concerns what general measures, reciprocal measures and measures to abolish non-trade barriers the Commission intends to take at both multilateral and bilateral level, as well as within the framework of trans-regional cooperation.

The US needs to change its domestic legislation to allow EU investors majority ownership of US airlines, generating reciprocal measures from the EU.